In plain words
He went on welcoming every hardship with Ānanda. This is the chief mark of Divinity. First of all, what does ‘God’ mean? It means that God is the one who is beyond time. So these karmas do not in the least stand in the way of Divinity, which is beyond time. He Himself is the doer, He Himself the enjoyer! There, there is no room at all for grief. To show duty as an ideal is their chief karma. In just the same way, in hardships, in losses, in sorrows and in griefs, we must not in the least either sink down or swell up. We must experience with Ānanda the equanimity that lies in both. The Pāṇḍavas fell to deceits of many kinds and went through hardships. But they went on pouring out their whole lives for Satya and Dharma. That is why God was pleased. Kṛṣṇa Himself, in person, was at their side, as their companion, in their home.
The good and the great bear hardships and sufferings for the world
Jesus showed that following such equanimity was His duty. At the very end He poured out even His blood for the land. When many who were devotees, unable to bear this suffering, set about reviling the wicked men who were tormenting Jesus, He gave them the right answer as a voice without a body. Some devotees of Jesus, like Peter, could not bear this. They got ready to confront the enemies. Even at that time Jesus taught them, ‘All are one My dear son, be alike to every one.’ The very first enemy of Jesus was Paul. One day God appeared to this Paul in a dream: “Paul! You are very ignorant. You think Jesus is selfish. What is Jesus doing to the world?