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[ Upasargas by God Sangama
and weak-minded. The patient are, therefore, entitled to enjoy the happiness of the spiritual kingdom, while the impatient rot and stink in the deep wells of slavery, rebirth, and miseries. The patient are brave while the impatient are cowards, or, in other words, the patient are perfect in every respect while the impatient are imperfect. The load of destiny has to be carried by all. It is only the truly patient and the renunciative who can get rid of that load, being indifferent to the joys and sorrows of this world, while the impatient try to increase that load instead of decreasing it.
The truly patient and strong-willed people think that every living being who is born in this world must underg:> a succession of joys and sorrows; and hence they remain quite unaffected by these feelings. No living being is forever happy or for ever unhappy. It is unnatural, therefore, to be dejected by sorrows or to be enraptured by joys. Joys and sorrows follow a Jiva wherever it goes, and are present at the birth of every living being. Whoever tries to understand this puzzle of Nature, cuts off all his connections with the world and seeks refuge under the protection of patience alone. It is such people for whom the true happiness is always searching in this world, and whom the fame of the whole universe decorates with a garland of triumph strong with her own far-stretched hands. Such people alone are worshipped in this world and are regarded as holy and pious.
These great souls know it quite well that their highest virtue, i. e., patience, is better tested in sorrow than in joy. Although it is but natural to deflect from the path of duty and righteousness, when calamities come, yet the strong
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