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means except by the Grace of God and the Master Himself. If, of course, such a grace seems to be lacking, then it is that one turns against the whole spiritual way of life as meaningless. To be thankful for our miseries and trials obviously flows from the fact that all that occurs is owing to Divine Will. Master indeed writes (in a letter) that since God cannot but be good all that occurs is good and no one can think even that God gives the evil or the wrong, or that adharma even prevails. If this problem is stated in this manner then it becomes clear that one need to nothing but accept one's fate and suffer through all this, and to seek freedom from misery is to accept it as God's gift. Adharma and Dharma begin to have no opposition between one another. But perhaps it may be said that one pursues dharma because it shows your love of God rather than that it is dharma, and you would indeed do anything that you are instructed by Gurus as Dharma even when it goes contrary to your cherished traditions and conscience.
However, the commandment is unambiguous. One who accepts this path must accept all as God's gifts and be thankful. This demands more faith than reasoning and depends on it more fully than anything else.