In plain words
You will have to face them. Na sukhāt labhyate sukhaṃ. Happiness does not come to us from happiness. From hardship itself happiness comes to us. The body has come to us for the sake of going through this hardship. Only when we use this body in the right way do the courage, the daring and the strength to bear hardships come to us. A power that is not in man is in nothing else. Asking how he was to bear so many hardships, he grew weak. There is no need for weakness to come. The power to bear those hardships is in us too. Were that very power to bear not in us, how many hardships have we borne while living our life! This itself is the plain proof of it. We think it is hard. We let the time pass. Within this very time we go on overcoming the hardships. This power to overcome is in us ourselves. But only because we do not know how to use the power we have do we sink under hardships. We must be courageous at all times. That is the four Fs we tell the children.
Follow the Master Face the devil Fight to the end. Finish the game.
This is our life. We must face each thing. If we sink and waste away, crying, ‘Hardship! Hardship!’, the hardship becomes still heavier. Within the very time of hardship we must face it with courage. Courage achieves everything. Many kinds of things go on hunting us in the world. We must not fear them at all. We must face them with courage. Pippalāda went on teaching this courage to the students.
The hearts of students are tender. But because they do not know the matter, they keep falling into confusion. With this confusion even the fuse they have is gone. Depression sets in. Life takes the shape of despair. This is not good. We must face anything at all with courage. Courage and daring of that kind must grow in students. Without leaving Satya, without letting go of Prema, without giving up courage, we must develop a mind that does not waver and a vision that does not stray.