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|| Shri Hari ||

Special Grace of God in Miseries

Swami Ramsukhdas

|| Shri Hari ||

O’ Lord ! O’ My Lord ! May I never forget You !


tvameva mata cha pita tvameva

tvameva bandhuscha sakha tvameva |

tvameva vidyaa dravinam tvameva

tvameva sarvam mama devadeva ||

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|| Shri Hari ||


A man wants favourableness, but does not want unfavourableness

this is his cowardice. The desire for favourable situations is the main

bondage for a man. Besides this there is no bondage. In order to eliminate

this desire (for favorableness), God lovingly sends unfavorable situations, for

the devotee’s betterment. In the unfavorable situations, our attachment to

the alien elements (this world) is broken away. If unfavourableness comes in

one’s life, then one should understand that it is a very special grace from

God. It is indescribable, the amount of bliss, peace and happiness that is


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there in unfavourableness. These unfavourable circumstances are like God

Realization.

God has said

‘nityam cha samachittattvamisthopapattitshu’ (Gita 8/9).

‘Constant balance of mind both in favourable and unfavourable

circumstances.’

To remain happy on arrival of unfavorable situations, is the mother of

equanimity. Lord Vishnu became the greatest among all the deities because

when He was kicked in His chest by Bhriguji, He did not get angry. He

started pressing the legs (feet) of Bhriguji and spoke, ‘Bhriguji, my chest is

very hard and your feet are very soft, therefore your feet might be hurt on


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contact with my chest.’ We are part of God

‘Mamaivaansho jeevaloke’ (Gita 15/7),

‘The Jivatma (soul) is an eternal portion of Myself.’

If we are portion of God, and cannot heartily respect, he who kicks our

chest, then how are we the devotees of God ? We should presume the

arrival of unfavourable situation as a golden opportunity and we should dance

with joy that God has showered his special grace on us. I am hesitating to

say that every man does not recognize such a golden opportunity. If we tell

someone, that he does not recognize this golden opportunity, then this gives

disrespect to that person. If we get such an opportunity and we recognize

that God has showered His special grace on us, then this is something very

beneficial.

There is a description in Gita that one who has control over his internal

instrument (antahkaran), such a person free from attachment and aversion

by using senseobjects with senses attains placidity of mind and on attaining

that placidity, his entire sufferings come to an end and his intellect very

quickly gets firmly established in God (Gita 2/6465). He who remains happy

in most unfavorable circumstances, his intellect gets established in God very

quickly. The reason is that the happiness arising during the unfavorable

situation is the mother of equanimity. If such happiness (placidity) is attained,

then the person should think that he has attained the mother of equanimity

and the grandmother of Godrealization.

There is a very special grace of God in the unfavourable circumstances

but this does not mean that you should desire unfavourable situation. We


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should not desire for favourable or unfavourable situations but we should

remain pleased with the situation which God sends to us. Our relationship

stands with God, not with any circumstance. If God sends an unfavourable

situation, then we should understand that it is a great favor. God has sent

the unfavourable situation for removing our attachment to favourable

circumstances. In ValmikiRamayan, Aranyakanda, it has been said

Sulabha purusha raajan satatam priyavaadinah |

Apriyasya cha pathyasya vakta shrota cha durlabh || (37/2)

‘O’ king, there are so many people who continuously go on speaking

sweet words but there is dearth of speakers as wells as listeners of

unfavourable but useful words’.

There is a Marwari proverb

‘sati deve santoshi pave; jaaki vaasana teen lok mein jaave.’

If the giver of alms (food) is a chaste woman and he who receives it is

contented, the fragrance of such alms (food) spreads in the three worlds.’

Similarly if the giver is God and the receiver is His devotee i.e., if by

making special favors; He sends unfavourable situation and the devotee

becomes joyful by accepting it, then its effect shall be experienced by the

entire world.

There is nothing more helpful than pain but difficulty lies in the fact that

we cannot return the good done to us by pain. We shall ever remain indebted

to the pain since the poor pain is not immortal. The poor pain does not


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survive eternally, it dies soon after doing favor to us. We cannot perform last

rites of pain nor can we offer it obsequial oblation, we’ll ever remain indebted

to it. Therefore when we suffer pain, we should feel that God has showered

His grace on us. Big or small, whatever form of pain comes then we should

dance and think well of it. There have been very few people in this world who

could understand this type of God’s grace. Mother Kunti understood it,

therefore she demanded a boon from God.

‘Vipadah santu nah shashvattra tatra jagaduro |

Bhavato darshanam yatsyaadapunarbhavdarsharnam ||

(Srimad Bhagavata I/8/25)

‘O’ great teacher of the world ! the miseries should come at every step

in our life so that we may be able to have Your vision (darshana) which

enables us not to come to this mortal world again’.

Mother Kunti understood misery as her dear relative, because through

this one gets the vision of God. Therefore the misery has been proved as the

mother of God’s vision. Thus, the coming of misery is a joyful occasion for

an aspirant. To experience happiness on the arrival of misery is a very high

spiritual means for an aspirant.

If an aspirant wants to achieve Godrealization, then he should

transcend pleasure and pain

‘sukhadukhe same krtva’ (Gita 2/38).

Establish equality in pleasure and pain.


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One desires happiness but it is not obtained and does not desire misery

but without invitation it comes. Therefore the misery does not come if one

desires it, it comes only through the grace of God. There is our acceptance

in pleasure, but our acceptance is not there at the time when pain comes to

us. The thing in which there is our desire or acceptance, that thing becomes

impure. The thing in which there is neither our desire, nor our acceptance,

that thing is obtained only by the pure grace of God. One who keeps enmity

with us, gives us pain, we cannot provide any benefit (return) to him. He will

not accept our help. He becomes happy by giving us pain. If a person

becomes joyful without any effort from our side, then how nice such a thing is

! Therefore, in future we should determine firmly that we have to remain

joyful and happy in every type of situation. Favorable situation may come or

unfavorable situation may come, we have to remain joyful because it is

God’s gracious gift to us.

From Kalyan Kalpatru by Swami Ramsukhdasji available at Gita

Press, Gorakhpur

Narayana ! Narayana ! Narayana !


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