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Suffering is the root and results are flowers
afflictions and sufferings thereby setting the examples to others in dealing with all these.
Leave alone facing the sufferings with courage as advised by the masters of the Order, complaining about those miseries etc. is what was observed generally. Even coming to our sufferings, how many of us can boast of having the kind of afflictions or sufferings what our masters have faced in their lives? In this context one must remember the caution given by the Master in the article ‘Afflictions’ (None in the world is free from worries. The presence of afflictions is in fact a positive proof of the very existence of man. Worries are really the result of the unbalanced activity which had originally brought man into existence. This is the inter-play of the forces of Nature, causing expansions and contractions, by the effect of which layer after layer began to be formed. Now if one keeps his entire attention located on them thinking that thereby he may minimise their effect, it is almost impossible. Ages may be lost in the pursuit, not to speak of this one life; on the other hand, he will go on fabricating greater intricacies by his own actions. That is really the misutilisation of the powers bestowed on us by Nature (SS 467)). It is a caution against brooding nature of us and a caution against misutilisation of the power bestowed on us and a caution against giving power to the negative thoughts and ideas is what I have understood from that.
Though Master has given a solution for handling the sufferings in the following words “The effective solution of the problem is to give them up to the charge of a higher soul and to dissociate yourself from them altogether. Cares, anxieties and worries will then subside and nothing but duty will remain to view. That conveys the idea of surrender which is the sum total of the entire Sadhana. (SS 471(Afflictions))”, we try to do away our
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