15 April 2025
Tuesday
You proceed from ‘death’ to ‘life’ and from ‘illness’ to ‘health’ by the experience of the buffetings of the world. The world is a very essential part of the curriculum of man; through the agony of search is born the infant (wisdom). The pains are worthwhile; they indicate the birth of new life. From ashanti (restlessness), you get prashanti (absolute peace), from prashanti to prakanti (bright spiritual illumination), and from prakanti, Paramjyoti (supreme divine radiance). It is like the alternating of night and day, this recurrence of joy and grief. Night and day are twin sisters, both are necessary to increase the fertility of the soil, to activate and refresh life. They are like summer and winter. There are some who ask Me, “Baba! Make this summer less hot!” But, in the heat of summer, the Earth takes in the needed energy from the Sun, so that when the rains come, she may yield a plentiful harvest. ‘Cold’ and ‘heat’ are both in the plan of God and yours is only to know this and treat both as valuable.
From Swami’s discourse of 1953
You proceed from ‘death’ to ‘life’ and from ‘illness’ to ‘health’ by the experience of the buffetings of the world. The world is a very essential part of the curriculum of man; through the agony of search is born the infant (wisdom). The pains are worthwhile; they indicate the birth of new life. From ashanti (restlessness), you get prashanti (absolute peace), from prashanti to prakanti (bright spiritual illumination), and from prakanti, Paramjyoti (supreme divine radiance). It is like the alternating of night and day, this recurrence of joy and grief. Night and day are twin sisters, both are necessary to increase the fertility of the soil, to activate and refresh life. They are like summer and winter. There are some who ask Me, “Baba! Make this summer less hot!” But, in the heat of summer, the Earth takes in the needed energy from the Sun, so that when the rains come, she may yield a plentiful harvest. ‘Cold’ and ‘heat’ are both in the plan of God and yours is only to know this and treat both as valuable.