Meaning: The line of Samved 653 says that — Hardships, difficulties, unbearable situations and moments of trouble keep on coming in a man's life. Happiness and sorrow are the two wheels of the chariot of life. One should never be afraid of facing this fact. Troubles give a man the strength to struggle and become helpful in this progress and spiritual development.
Message: Innumerable are God's blessings on man. He has provided him with every type of facility. But everywhere around us there are so many men who are wretched, sorrowful, diseased and fallen. We should use our insight and capacity in helping them. Only hardships are the test of love. The real measure of our character is the type of our conduct towards our brothers and neighbors in their times of trouble. When there is a fire in the neighborhood, shall we sit peacefully in our homes? When people are suffering form hunger, should we enjoy feasts? When there is enthusiasm for serving the people with love and honor, with humility in the heart, then only we should understand that ours is true love.
There are people with different streams of thoughts in the world around us. They all have their own selfish interests and the levels of their talents, capacities and intelligence are also different, and therefore, conflicts within them are possible. It is not possible for all to agree with our thoughts that are why they keep creating troubles for us. This is the reality of life. Those who have the capacity to fight against adverse situations and bring them to normalcy, they only achieve victory in the struggle of life. They only do well to themselves and are also capable of doing simultaneous good to others. In doing well to others, in serving others and helping others, one has also to face many difficulties. One's own family members' protest there is also the fear of "What will people say", one has to spend time and money, and no personal benefit is visible. But in reality, there are many benefits in this work of helping others. Not only does one get peace of mind and satisfaction but one is graced by God's blessings also. That person receives God's grace who surrenders self-interest for helping others and the deities honor such a person. The saying is 'deva sadaa balim prayachhati' i.e. God always helps the persons who make personal sacrifices. Droupadi the Pandev queen had torn out half her sari to help cover a monk without any clothes, and it is well-known that in the time of her distress, when Duryodhan tried to shame her by trying to pull out her sari, it went on increasing and Duryodhan had to give up in the end.
The grace and grandeur of life increases by helping others. The real helpers are always cheerful. They experience joy when doing others' work and experience divine light within themselves. They receive fame and honor. A lowly person desires wealth, a middle class man wishes to become wealthy, but a man of excellence desires only honor. Those who are higher than even the excellent level, they do not even desire honor and remain busy in works of welfare without any self interest.
Baseless thoughts dis-appear form the heart with the sentiment for helping others.
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