What is the cure for the maladies that we go through in our daily lives?
Do good to others; avoid doing any harm. Doing good is the drug and avoiding harm is the regimen that must accompany the treatment. This is the cure for the disease of suffering from joy and grief, honor and dishonor, prosperity and adversity, and the dual throng that bothers man and deprives him of equanimity.
What is the purpose of calamities and difficulties on the spiritual path? How can one overcome them?
Let not your faith and steadiness be shaken by obstacles. Keep them unaffected by the still greater difficulties and disasters that might blow over you. The gale helps to toughen the trunk of the tree. Calamities must deepen your courage, enlarge your faith. Your spiritual practice must be intensified, just when the weather is inclement. In a fair weather, care-free attitude is pardonable, but in foul weather, every precaution is of value.
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