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inevitable for an embodied soul. They are not punitive but reformative.
The inevitable reason why we should be happy under all circumstances as expressed by Revered Babuji Maharaj in His inimitable way is that we have come out from Divine Energy and it has become our base, where bliss reigns supreme. Since it has gone out of sight, we have to revive if we want to maintain ourselves. (SDG Page 38)
Revered Babuji further enlightened us about the importance of sufferings, miseries pains and diseases in our lives since they are bestowed on us by the all merciful and loving Divinity for our deliverance for which we should ever remain grateful and be happy.
Revered Babuji Maharaj stated that “sufferings and miseries have their own place in life. Everyone has his share of it. Even sages of eminence had their own. Had there been no sufferings in the world, man’s thought could never have gone up to the reverse side of it (i.e) the bliss. Thus man’s affliction offers him inducement for finding out means of emancipation. In other words they serve as stimulants. We know that coal can be transformed into diamond. That means that a change in the set up gives things a new appearance. A thing becomes useful and pleasing when its set up is right. While it becomes painful and ugly if it is wrong. Same is the case with afflictions. Our discriminative faculty is so much overshadowed by the hankerings of the mind that we have become quite blind to the real values of things concerned with in life. As a matter of fact everything in life is for our ultimate good; only we have to learn their proper utilization so as to turn them to our advantage. But unfortunately we have all along been going in the wrong
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