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Master Calls "The Saintly Path"
So it is only a fool who will want happiness and a bigger fool who
will refuse miseries. The wise man always accepts. For him there is
no distinction, because what comes from the lover is a love letter.
It is not the contents of the letter which makes a love letter. When
a lover writes a letter, it is a love letter.
We should know that when a doctor operates surgically on us, it is not
for satisfaction that he is giving us pain. It is to rid us of the disease,
to cure us of the disease, to make us whole, well. If a mere doctor
can be like that, how much more must be the Master? How much He must
weep internally to move even the smallest thing against our wishes?
But yet, it has to be done; because otherwise He would be going against
the integrity of His own existence. So I can assure everyone of you
that if the Master permits us as abhyasis, to undergo certain samskaras
which are painful, which are troublesome, which may demean us, which
may make us lose those whom we cherish, He weeps much more for us than
we could ever weep for ourselves. But we don't see the tears in His
eyes. So let us believe that whatever happens to us is for our immediate
good, for our ultimate good. There can be nothing which comes from the
Master which is even capable of remotely being against our existence.
If we are able to realise this, to understand it with our hearts, not
the intellect, then the realisation of the maxims will come, that we
will truly, not only accept miseries as gifts, we will pray for miseries.
Because, then opens up the possibility of our progress being accelerated.
Now we are cooperating. Acceptance is one thing, cooperation is another.
So when do we really cooperate? I personally believe that some day,
somebody may have to formulate another set of maxims, where Master will
not stop at saying "Accept miseries as gifts", but add "Pray
for miseries as gifts." Because don't we do everything that will
accelerate our progress in the material world? Should we not similarly
do everything that is essential to accelerate our progress in the spiritual
world? So this is the dawning of divine wisdom for which we have all
to pray.
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