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Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
to pray to God to bestow a life which might be parallel to death.
Sufferings and miseries have their own place in life. Every one 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 lit becomes painful and ugly if it is wrong. The same is the case with afflictions. Our discriminative 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 life. As a matter of fact every thing in life is for our ultimate good; only we have to learn their proper utilisation so as to turn them to our advantage.(SS-460,461) Undergoing miseries and mental agonies. In fact one can go to the extent of saying the whole success in spiritual path and in pursuing the sole Goal viz., the attainment of Realization, hinges on this balance.
Our Grand Master averred a man born in this world is sure to taste miseries one cannot escape them. He added, as for afflictions and worries, I too had mine which might perhaps be shocking to another. At another stage Grand Master who was suffering from serious iless is said to have remarked, on seeing tears in the eyes of His disciple, that he could cure his disease with in no time but he did not want to meddle with God’s ways.
It is only when a man cultivates anti material activities, giving up attraction or fascination for
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