Living In The Presence of God (VolII/PtII)-Chapter 64

July 6, 2007

CHAPTER 64 Pain comes in life as the test to challenge and inquire the strength of one's inner response. One, slowly, gains the knowledge of truth from his own self as one progresses in his spiritual practices, and this knowledge becomes the experience, only when time arrives to you with its packet of troubles! Yes! The strength of truth will be known to you, when it tackles, confronts and conquers every misery that comes your way in the course of this life. Hence, realize, My child, that in pain itself, is the freedom to your

slavery and bondage to this world. The one that desires will be subjected to the wheel of time - his expectations from life will change, continuously, depending upon the outer circumstances. What he wants from life, today, will surely appear to him inadequate, tomorrow, and thus, all he takes from life is his discontentment with his own self!! Yes! The one that is unhappy in being what he has unfortunately become, carries his misery in every place and swallows the joy of any restful mind with his appetite for greed. Such a one, will, one day, face every fear of loneliness and will begin to detest the worth of his worldly riches and will be repelled by his every desire. It is then that he will awaken from the sleep of wishful dreams and will rebel against time. No more will he fear the pain of confrontation. No more will he live in the fear of receiving. It is then that he will be

able to see the brilliance of truth and will carry its torch alone to give life its direction, goal and fulfillment! True happiness comes, only when one lives in the contented world of God. One can be touched by the world's sorrows, only when one has, willfully, kept his inner home in the darkness of purposeful and stubborn ignorance. The sorrows one thinks that he experiences merely reflect his state of inner weakness. Thus, sorrows, My child, automatically, fade and disappear the moment man is inspired to stand upon the strength of the absolute truth. Sorrows, My child, are the illusionary manifestations of the mind - they appear real, only because you have chosen to give them the strength of your expressions. A mind that lies in a weak state will only perceive the outer world, and

thus, the world within that contains all the powers of the will remain latent and dormant to him. The more he unconsciously gets attached to his state of weakness, the more he is attacked by every pain. Thus, do not pray to the Lord that the sorrow must leave you - that which is unreal cannot truly exist - it cannot come - it does not go - for it is simply not even present! Pray, My child, that the Lord awakens your true vision for you to be able to see its unreality. Pray to the Merciful God that you receive His Glorious strength to wipe the mist of sorrows that blur one's reflection in the mirror of life. Pray to God that you are unburdened from the weight of your ignorance. Remember, always, that forbearance comes only by acceptance never by resistance. The more you will resist from facing the pain - the more it will follow you - the more it will haunt you - the more it will trouble you. Once you find the will power to

accept the challenge of the pain, the pain, then, turns its back to vanish, once again, in the fog of illusion, leaving you to stand victorious in the reality of your own divine strength!

Source : LIVING IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD (Volume II/Part II)

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