To love God is to follow the movement of life by accepting it in its least turbulences. Loving entails opening one's heart to others while cultivating in oneself the capability to interiorise and unite with His omnipotence. These two are not incompatible. But on the other hand, deliberately cutting oneself off from external life does not facilitate one's personal work. Being confronted every day with life's difficulties, associating with one's fellow creatures, and observing them in the tumult of their existence – all these show how much each one must cope with one's own karma and accept it as well as possible.

"Life on Earth is not a long, beautiful and smooth story free from tragic events. All humans have their fair share of them, sooner or later. What remains is the way they handle ordeals and what they learn from them. Nothing is simple, and yet a noble soul manages to emerge from the most difficult context and be united with God. Life after life, one goes through stages leading towards liberation. It is not easy to accept this process. Man often rebels out of impatience: he wants happiness, a beautiful idyllic life, free from worries or ordeals. The Earth is on no account a heavenly place; one should admit this and take advantage of the possibilities it offers.

"Not everything starts and finishes in this life; it is only one stage of a long process. Wise are those who understand it and strive to come out of it with

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increased stature, having won multiple personal battles. We wish all a real awareness on the subject, with our blessings."

Babuji

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