I get these ‘Words of Wisdom’ emailed to me from the Satchidananda Ashram website every week, I post it here for your enjoyment and consideration…

“The World Becomes Heaven”

“You may question, ‘If the world is going to be that painful, why should God have created the world? Did He want me to constantly go through pain?’ No. He created the world for you to go through the obstructions, face them, learn how to overcome them. So, ponder, ‘The problems I have, did the world give them to me?’ If you think well, you should know, ‘The world is not there to give me pain. I caused my pain. I closed my eyes and went and knocked into the wall and I bumped my head. The wall was not interested in giving me a bump. It’s my wrong connection with it.’ When you realize that, you know how to deal with the world. You know how to enjoy the world. Then the world becomes a heaven for you.