Everything happens for the best

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"....consider all that happens, good or ill, pleasure or pain, is for your

good.Only then you will be able to nourish your good qualities." SS August 1995

"....once there was a minister to a king who was in the habit of declaring that

whatver that happened was for one's good. One day the king cut his finger while

slicing a piece of sugar-cane. Seeing the bleeding finger of the king, the

minister remarked that the cut was for the king's good. The king got so angry

that he committed the minister immediately to prison.

Even then the minister remarked that the prison sentence was for his own good. A

few days later, the king went alone hunting in a forest and was resting under a

tree. The servants of the tribal chief of the forest seized the king to be

offered as a human sacrifice.When the king was about to be beheaded, it was

noticed that the king's finger was mutilated and such a person could not be

offered as a sacrifice.The king was freed.

He remembered the minister's words and realised that the injury to his finger

had saved him from his death. He went straight to the prison and asked the

minister how he could declare that the prison sentence was good for him. The

minister replied that but for his being confined in prison , he would have

accompanied the king and the tribals would have chosen him in place of the king

for their sacrifice."

"The lesson of this story is that one should learn to welcome everything that

happens as for one's own good.

Recognition of this truth is the means to acquire God's grace.

Develop the firm conviction that whatever God says or does is for your own good." SS October 1995

- A compendium of the teachings of Satya Sai Baba :Mrs. Charlene Leslie-Chaden.

 

sherry.