Need the bad to enjoy the good

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People who get pain wish that pain never existed, just pleasure. They don’t realize that this world is made in such a way that there has to be night before it becomes day. Life is like that. There will be sun and rain, loss and gain, pleasure and pain. But we, as human beings, we don’t want to feel the pain. We just want to feel the pleasure. Just think, if you want a lotus, can you let a lotus grow without mud? The dirty mud is the place from where the roots of the lotus plant will grow. So the shoot and the fruit will depend on the root, and the root has to know the mud before it can bloom into a beautiful lotus and so, when there is mud in your life, when there is dirt in your life, realize that the lotus is going to bloom. All that is good, pleasure, success, gain will come even though for now there may be pain, there may be loss. It may rain. Don’t worry; the rainbow will come because unless there is rain you can’t have the rainbow. Therefore, don’t let the pain in your life pull you down. Let the pain catapult you into joy, into bliss, into aananda. Realize this truth that this world is a drama, a drama that will go on and on with all kinds of comedies and tragedies. But well, that is a part of the drama.

Enjoy the pleasure, enjoy the pain.

Enjoy the sun, enjoy the rain.

AiR