By : Smt. Maheshwari
Devotees of Sai Baba may think the hand of Sai Baba behind everything that happens. Human tendency is to blame God for misfortunes, bad luck, failure, sickness, sorrows, someone’s death or even any disasters. But these do not come from Lord Sainath at all. Sri Narasimha Swamiji says, “God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, others are caused by people, and still others are simply an inevitable consequence of our being human and mortal, living in a world of inflexible natural laws.”
The painful things that happen to us are not punishment for our misbehavior as we presume, nor are they in any way a grand design on God’s part. Because the tragedy is not God’s will, we need not feel betrayed by God when tragedy strikes. Instead, we can turn to him for help for overcoming it; we can tell ourselves that God is as outraged by the tragedy as we are.
Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji has pointed out that no one is free of all sorrows. There always comes a day in our lives when we experience bereavement, bad luck, sickness, defamation, or any other setback and in our pain and sorrow so much so that we let guilt, jealousy, and self-imposed loneliness make the bad situation even worse. Our sorrows can bring understanding as well as pain. Pain makes us sensitive,
compassionate and attentive. Out of love and sorrow can come a compassion that endures. What is important is not luxury but love, not wealth but wisdom, not gold but goodness. Out of love may come sorrow but out of sorrow can come light for others who dwell in darkness. Out of the light we bring to others will come light for ourselves — the light of solace, strength, of transfiguring and consecrating purpose.
We must laud God and tell him that we need to have hope, hope that our suffering has not been in vain, hope that eventually all suffering will be overcome, and hope that eventually we are always his partners in life. Baba’s message ‘You look to me, I shall look to you’ is the essence of Baba’s love towards us.
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