In plain words
Only when you bear the pain that is given does the pain that arose leave you. Happiness does not come to us through happiness. Happiness comes through sorrow.
Grow the good feeling that ‘whatever comes is for our good’
Sorrows, pains, blame and harsh words: all of these come only for our good. We must develop the good feeling that whatever comes is for our good. This is a very sacred feeling. When we hold this feeling, no pain will trouble us. Every hardship has come about for our good. Every hardship is what carries us to a higher level! Every pain is a step to a sacred place!
Hardship and happiness, the two, stay together; to part them is in no one’s power; happiness on its own we shall see nowhere; when hardship bears fruit, that is what they call happiness.
Hardship and happiness are not separate things. One is the beginning, the other the end. Fifteen days after the new moon begins, the full moon comes. And again, after the first day of the fortnight, the new moon comes. In the wheel of time, everything changes! All these are God’s decrees. We must recognise the truth that the creation of the world is always God’s decree. This Ahaṅkāra that says ‘I am doing, I am enjoying’ must be rooted out. As long as Ahaṅkāra remains, the awareness of the Ātma will not enter us. One full of Ahaṅkāra cannot see the Ātma. So, first of all, we must try to kill what is called Ahaṅkāra. It is what makes you suffer. What is this Ahaṅkāra? It is nothing but a delusion! It is this very delusion that we keep feeding, saying ‘I’, ‘I’. What is this thinking, ‘I am a householder’? It is a delusion! Then you dropped the delusion ‘householder’ and put on the delusion ‘sannyāsī’. This is taking off one shirt and putting on another. These are all just clothes. All of these were put on; none of them came with birth. When even what came with birth passes away, how long will what was put on last?