Page 719 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6

This is the essence of the Gita.—The thing is not difficult to be achieved. Absorbency in pious thoughts achieves this goal.” (SS 508-10)
We find the Master explaining the logic behind the sufferings and miseries in the following manner. One who is born is in tumult and disorder because contradictions presented themselves the very moment he came into existence and one who attaches himself unduly to them is held fast in their trammels. The way out is total reliance on divine support. Here the Master gives the example of the great King poet Birthruhari who even abandoned his pillow supporting his head thinking that reliance on the pillow for support would militate against his total reliance on God.
Sufferings have their own place in life for if they were not there man’s thought would not have gone upto its reverse- bliss. They constitute the inducement for finding out means for emancipation and even serve as stimulants. Commenting that our discriminate faculty is so much over shadowed by the hankerings of the mind that we have become quite blind to the real values of things concerned with in our life, He emphasizes that everything is for ultimate good and we should learn their proper utilization for turning them to our advantage. The example of conversion of coal into diamond is looked upon as a change of set up and how the change gives a new and pleasing appearance and also makes it more useful. The thing becomes useful and pleasing when the set up is right and it becomes painful and ugly when the set up is wrong.
We ought to realize that sufferings and miseries are caused by our own wrong doings and we should gladly accept them with a welcoming attitude the
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