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| Today everyone must be familiar with the physiological laws of his organism and know what his health depends on, as well as his good feelings and right thought. A great law governs all these functions. In these days there are statistics for all things - the birth of children, their death, how many are boys, how many are girls, etc. These numbers are strictly fixed. In the same way, it is mathematically defined how many houses must burn up and how many must be built; how many ships must sink and how many new ones must be constructed; how many trees must be cut down and how many planted; how many people must die and how many must be born, etc. There is a correspondence in everything. Therefore, suffering is cutting down, while joy is planting or sowing. After every sorrow, there comes joy. Sorrow is already unnecessary and useless. It is the old which must be cut down and in its place the new must be planted - joy must come. When you enter into the new life, up to the time you begin to live in it, you feel sorrowful. It is like a man leaving his country and going to a new one. He feels sad at first, because the conditions there are strange, unknown. You leave the old conditions under which you have lived and you grieve for them. But in case you remain to live under the old conditions much longer, you will not be able to elevate yourself. The old conditions represent poor soil upon which nothing but poverty, sickness and sorrow can grow or flourish. If you leave the old conditions, you will have a richer, more fertile soil. If you live in a mountain, you will have pure air, but the soil will be poor. If you live in the plains, you will have more fertile soil, you will become more industrious, but you will have more sufferings. Nature said: "People today are not yet worthy of living in the mountains." And in reality, we see that people who live in the mountains are not very intelligent, because they have not elevated themselves to the necessary height, in order to know how to benefit by the conditions there. In the mountains people become poets and writers, but they do not know yet the beauties of nature and cannot benefit by them. |
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