The Hindu Article - God will always guide us

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Miscellaneous - Religion

 

God will always guide us

 

CHENNAI DEC.27 . Every human being will only be too happy never to

experience the impact of sorrow but no one can be spared from it. Why

should a person undergo suffering and is it not possible to escape

from its clutches, one may ask. Even saints who came to this world to

spread the message of the Divine had to go through this painful

process but there is a difference between their conducts during the

period of such trials. The main cause for a man's grief may be due to

his speech or his actions or his mind going astray. A woman with her

child just dead asked a spiritual leader as to why this tragedy had

happened to her only. He advised her to visit all houses in the

locality and find out whether any one of the members therein has

enjoyed only happiness right through. She regretted that she was in a

hurry to question the master not knowing that everyone would have had

been in a similar position at some time or other.

 

Divine messengers were able to withstand grief as their thoughts were

always engaged in recalling God's merciful acts. Many of them had

gone through penury and even starvation but their agony was mitigated

because they believed in Divine dispensation. They never sought any

favour from God but their prayers helped them to overcome their

sorrow. They forget everything in doing service to God and humanity.

But laymen will get upset on similar occasions when grief overtakes

them. The panacea for remaining unruffled is to seek God's grace by

reading or listening to the scriptural texts, which will surely

provide them solace and moral strength to avoid breaking down. The

manner in which God saved the honour of Draupadi though not coming in

person, but from behind when evil men tried to disrobe her, will

fetch confidence to all that He is ever present with us to guide us

to overcome such situations.

 

The mind will remain steady by hearing the expositions of our ancient

texts and hence we will not get affected during such distressing

times. The Divine incarnation as Vamana presents before us a picture

of God assuming a Cosmic form and helping the celestials. He also

gave an exalted status to a king who though an adherent to the Law of

Virtue, was slightly proud and conscious of his power, said Sri P.M.

Vijayaraghava Sastrigal in his Bhagavatham discourse. The latter

(Bali) should have said "This land is Yours and You have the right to

take it". Instead he boasted "I shall give it to You". God ultimately

gave Himself to him (Bali).

 

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