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Even a little wisdom helps us to see things
their proper perspective. It is not uncommon to see certain people
treat their own sufferings and sorrows lightly.
When sympathized with in their
affliction, they say: 'Oh, it is
nothing; it is all God's sankalpa.'
They exhibit patience and peace, which helps them to bear their
sufferings with cheer and fortitude. Time is a great healer. The
agonies of today pale into nothingness after a lapse of years.
When he has to face present suffering, the jnaani
looks on it with a mind of thirty years hence and laughs at it. By
that', suffering loses its sting for him.
He cultivates a
detachment like unto that which an ordinary mans generally exhibits for the sufferings of
a man in another part of the globe. The jnaani separates himself at present from
his suffering by such a distance both of time and place.
In our scheme, the guru is equated with God. It is
said:
"Yasya deve paraa bhaktih yathaa deve tathaa gurau
tasyaite kathitahyartthaah prakaasante mahaatmanah."
To him who has devotion to God and a like devotion to his guru, to him all that is said
(and also all that is not said),
kathitahyartthaah (and akathitahyartthah), become clear
in his mind.
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