Sai Baba Gita - Use the Hardships you Encounter as Opportunities and Tests

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Use the Hardships you Encounter as Opportunities and Tests

Do not give in to temporary excitements and anger, and thereby lose your peace

of mind. Sorrow, loss, pain, worries are all tests to help you rid yourself of

your weaknesses. They reveal whether or not you have developed firm faith and

patience to endure hardships, and be unaffected by them. There is no use in

merely passing examinations conducted by educational institutions. You must

pass the examinations presented to you by life itself. It has been said, 'After

acquiring all types of education, it is only a fool who doesn't know his own

mind.' Whatever learning he might have acquired, a mean person will not acquire

any good qualities from it. Then what is the use of all his education? After

acquiring a lot of useless knowledge, he has only achieved the faculty for

engaging in arguments and counter-arguments.

Why study so many things which have no value at all? Instead, make every effort

to learn about that which has no death; that is the education which has lasting

value. What is the knowledge which enables you to know that which has no death?

That knowledge is the knowledge of atma, and that education is the atmic

education. The one who has no death has no birth either. Everything which is

born, which has come into existence, undergoes modifications and will

eventually die, and thereby lose its form. The entire world and everything in

it has a particular form. As it has form, it will undergo change. You should

try to reach the state where there is no change at all. To do so you must gain

self-knowledge, you must realize the atma.

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