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Suffering is the root and results are flowers
us spiritual progress without our effort. 4. Sattu Muni offers to give his meal plate to the ‘atithi’ even when he was about to eat after a long gap of time. Such balanced state of mind is difficult in such fasting condition. We loose our temper even if the meals are delayed for sometime; leave aside offering it to somebody else. Many such examples are available and I don’t want to go into them. Some such examples are also given in our “Game of Life”. The point here is that one should be able to do anything, just anything for the sake of reaching the accepted goal. In our case we have accepted the goal of life which Po. Babuji has told us. Po. Babuji further says “Freedom we want, but we do not know its definition”. He goes on to say, “suffering is the root and results are flowers. Unless we accept the sufferings, we cannot develop forbearance. Sufferings give us patience, help in developing self-control and increase our tolerance. Only when we undergo sufferings, we come to know the importance of the properties gained thereby, rather, we come to know about the importance of these properties acquired and imbibed by others after undergoing such pains. As Babuji puts it, ‘difficulties are the operation of Nature for our good”. HE gives sufferings to us for our benefit i.e. to develop some of the above-mentioned virtues. Not understanding this, we complain and try avoiding them. Is it not that HE is testing us every time and we fail? A beautiful sculpture is born only after the raw stone endures innumerable hits of the sculptor. If you permit me, I will say that Newton’s law viz. “To every action, there is equal and opposite reaction” comes true here also. Whenever you successfully undergo a suffering without any complaint, you are sure to have progressed to that extent. Let us all take an oath that we will take whatever comes to us in our life as a gift without any complaints.
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