Everyone aspires for happiness and wants to avoid sorrow. But in this world, truth and untruth, righteousness and unrighteousness, joy and sorrow pass and change with time. You should have faith in the Ultimate Principle out of which both good and evil arise. The true human being treats pain and pleasure equally. Trust the Divine and experience His love in your hearts. In this world, the gain from sorrow is more than out of happiness. The saints and sages of yore, who have become immortal in history, aspired for hardship rather than happiness. The joy that arises out of overcoming hardships is more lasting than that gained from happiness. Hence, we should not be averse to sorrow nor should we look for happiness alone.

- Thought for the Day, December 17, 2006.

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