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Suffering is the root and results are flowers
system so that the result can be had in the form of lightness of the being or freedom.
My trainer and guide Shri K.C.Narayana garu’s soothing words, when I was despondent facing the afflictions of life in the early years of my practice of the system always rings in my ears. He asked me not to forget the sadhana whatever the circumstances may be like the people who forget the Master or the Goal or the God when they are happy and also in distress, dejection etc. thereby making the sadhana a casualty. On another occasion he told that no growth is possible without any pain or suffering. It is applicable in the spiritual life also is what he has explained. True to what my guide has told, whenever any adversity was faced it was coupled with experiences of profound nature that have helped me in moulding myself and move on the path is what I have experienced in this system. We may find commandments 5th and 7th and other advises about sufferings etc. difficult to follow but not impossible, as Masters will not give anything that is impossible to follow. Acceptance of sufferings as advised by the Masters of the Order and following them in that way may not happen overnight. Assiduous sadhana and restlessness towards the Goal will definitely make us change our attitudes and accept them as such over a period of time is what we had seen from the examples of the many of the serious practicants of the system, which otherwise would not have been possible.
Forbearance, tolerance, fortitude, humility, surrender, reduction in ego are some of the flowers that bloom because of sufferings and miseries in life is the experiential truth for all of us, who are practicing PAM. Ego instead becoming a flower by reduction may become a thorn by getting boosted for facing all these sufferings etc. if we forget the help of the system.
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