02/09/2026
Trials do not come to destroy you, but to help you better appreciate God. God does not send those trials. They are born of your own making. All you have to do is resurrect your consciousness from the environment of ignorance. Environmental troubles are born because of your conscious or unconscious actions in the past, somewhere, sometime. You must accept blame for them, without developing an inferiority complex.
You must say: “I know Thou are coming! I shall see Thy silver lining. In this tumultuous sea of trials, Thou art the Polestar to my shipwrecked thoughts.” Why are you afraid? Remember, you are not a man or a woman. You are an Immortal Being.
Paramhansa Yogananda, ‘How to be a Success’, Chapter 6, Page 98.