When sufferings come, why do you estrange yourselves from the Lord? He
gives you suffering, for your good, for the advancement of your devotion. If
suffering is granted, you seek Shanthi; you search for the knowledge of the
mystery; you go to ten persons and they each tell you some aspect of the truth.
Without suffering, sweetness cannot arise!.
The Lord will never deviate from His word; it may be that you take Me to
mean something else. It is My will that happens always; it is My Sankalpa that
is being worked out at all times.
- From Swami's 1961 Dasara Discourses.
Om Sai Ram
