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ILLNESS - A BLESSING IN DISGUISE!
In the present age there is a hue and cry about shortages. Somewhere there is a shortage of food grains, somewhere there is a shortage of water, somewhere there is a shortage of petrol, somewhere there is a shortage of cooking fuel, while somewhere there is a shortage of money. But the one shortage that is the topmost in the list is the shortage of time; because while other things can be borrowed, nobody can borrow another's time. You can pass cross-entries for money but not for time. Today, there is so much shortage of time that even a free person remains very busy.
There are many activities that need to be performed, we desire to perform them, the opportunities are also available, yet we are unable to perform them. The reason being, shortage of time. Man wants to listen to divine music and satsangs, discourses, but there is no time to listen. The students are so much buried under the burden of studies that they do not even have the time to go on a tour during their holidays. The business community is so much engrossed in their business activities that they have no time to look up at anything else!
Let me throw some light on what lessons can an illness that occurs sometimes in life, teach you. That an illness gives pain is not the true character of illness, because pain is experienced often in many other ways also, even without falling sick. The true character of an illness is that it gives you free time. It is as if a person having a severe shortage of time has suddenly won a super lottery of time. During illness you have just ample time, ample idle time and ample rest.
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