Welcome tests which will toughen us.

[Guest guest]

During my boyhood days and younger days, i was tossed by the mind and senses. Only respite was my maiden devotion to Shirdi Baba. He also let me loose to learn the bitter lessons of life. Fifty years later, i resent having been a slave to the mind and senses.But the grip of Swami around me tightened much, i could not move a bit out of his loving hold. It is for our own uplift, he subjects us to so much troubles and misery both in the physical and mental level. Only in the terrible heat of summer, the raw mango become ripe. When the plants are subjected to such external forces, how we will be let loose. It is the alternating joy and sorrow, which makes a man wise and he grows in wisdom.Hence Swami exhorts all of us to welcome tests. Tests will toughen us. Sairam.