3 as one book - Kirpal Singh

ADVERSITY 4 9and duration of the strain is toned down by the interventionof the gracious Master Power. That is all that youcan do, and doing so, you will be finding a new approachto your problems and will be accepting the results withcheer, knowing it to be a passing phase.130When the Lord wants to make a great poem of a man'slife, He sends him or her to the school of privations,worries and difficulties, and all the time He keeps extendingHis protective hand over him or her to passthrough unscathed.13'Man would do little for God if the devil were dead. Aman living under the shadow of an impending calamitylives at his best for he strives the hardest.13*Fear is not good and should be discarded by givingyour worries over to the ever-present gracious MasterPower working overhead. Fear is always based on someunknown apprehension, and one should look at it squarelyand then it will flee in no time, as it is a result of yourself-created fr~strati0n.l'~We should be constantly on the watch not to stumbleand fall when obstacles come on the way. Even if youfall, never allow such fall to throw you off balance inany way-pick yourself up and continue on your waywith patience and perseverance with full trust in the Masterworking over your head.13*Even if prayer may seem to fail to avert calamity, yetit has the power to take the sting out of it. With an innertransformation there comes a change in the angle ofvision, which greatlv affects the outlook on life. Everythingputs on a new mantle of color superbly Divine.13'