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Suffering is the root and results are flowers
Suffering when understood as an effect of a cause of an action will result in accepting the result rationally. The example would be like that of a child who puts its hand in hot water and immediately removes it. The lesson it learns is that you should not put your hand in hot water. But when something happens for which we cannot give a rationale and we feel we did not do anything wrong, only on analysis we would know what is causing a barrier to our spiritual growth. The flower is in getting rid of the barrier. The example would be of being found fault with, for no apparent reason, when we feel that it was not correct on the person’s part to do that, we have failed to see divinity in that person. It is failures in tests that nature provides for the spiritual growth of a person that cause suffering. These failures become stepping stones for success. They help a person in analyzing his defects, placing them before the master and resolving to grow. The same test is repeated ( though situations may be different ) till the person grows.
As master has stated, we want freedom but do not know from what. Since we do not know our attachments or the seeds, It is from the suffering which is the expression of the seed ( attachment ) that helps us in knowing what our attachments are and when we consciously try and succeed in getting out of the attachments which makes us free to that extent, those are the flowers born out of the sufferings that were undergone.
The flowers that develop due to sufferings are Patience, Tolerance, Yielding, Endurance, Forbearance, Fortitude, Meekness, Humility, etc. etc. which lead us to the garden.
It is only by depending on the master that we can live a life of principled character and also enjoy the flowers that arise out of sufferings.
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