🌺 If everyone were happy the world would be happy.
If everybody entered a beatific state the world would be beatific; as a reason, it is very good. But it is a cure, it is not a cause. You are asked here what the cause is. Whence comes the unhappiness if it is not from God — who is, of course, all beneficent and who would never do such a horrible thing!
The world does not exist, it is an illusion of our false consciousness.
Ah! Try telling this to someone who is suffering from liver colic, for instance!
The world has been made, somebody said, to teach the poor to suffer and the rich to give.
That is what I was saying, isn’t it (laughing), that if there were no misery upon earth what would become of philanthropy?... If we explore all the fields like this, we shall end up perhaps by understanding that all was necessary, otherwise the world would not have been. This is perhaps one conclusion. No, it is not a con- clusion, for it would justify the indefinite perpetuation of what is.
Why is there imperfection, if the world is as it ought to be?
No one has said that, if so there would be nothing else to do but sit down and not move any more!
We have already granted that the world is not what it ought to be and that we are here to work so that it may become what it ought to be. But to know this one must first know what it ought to be, isn’t that so? That is the problem. What should the world be?
🌸 The Mother ( Question and Answers, Volume-4, page no.290-291)
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