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Suffering is the root and results are flowers
The fruit of Realization is ready to be borne, the honey bee is ready to play its destined role of pollination, the bee is Master who has got the inner signal from God to carry out His noble task of perfecting yet another soul, another full expression of the Divine.
As the Master puts it His task is to deliver such a deserving soul to its Maker but as He would put it, His job is not yet over. He has to remain cleaning the soul of any superfine defilements which would make it unfit to be in the state of mergence with the Supreme Principle, as long as it remains embodied. The service of such a Master the very expression of Unalloyed Love continues beyond His own earthly sojourn.
Before we end this paper we need to address another aspect of suffering altogether in a different class.
The Master states in His article, ‘My Pain’, ‘I developed a feeling of impatience----It soon developed into a sort of restlessness and pain--- the pangs aggravated to such an extent that a person not connected with spirituality would have committed suicide’. He further says that He could have sacrificed thousands of lives for having a similar state of pain-longing, craving or restlessness created in Him, the state became so dear to Him. People want peace and rest whereas He talks of restless impatience, the pangs of separation. He even pleads with us that we could give Him some satisfaction and solace by cultivating at least a fraction of this pain- longing.
Achieving peace and tranquility is fairly easy but even the greatest saints of the past have fallen short of the mark, namely this restless longing which is but reserved for those whose eyes are fixed firmly on Him. Having that kind of pain is the foundation of the structure which brings forth such rare personalities into the world as the
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