God does not work directly upon us. His action is veiled and modified by the Nature. This is so because we are not ready to bear the direct action of the Divine. Hence we have to undergo a long journey through the darkness of ignorance. What we experience as suffering is a challenge thrown at us, a process through which we grow progressively strong and wise. The game of creation is not yet over and man is not the last summit of our evolutionary possibility nor is suffering the first and last experience of our journey. Suffering comes because of our misreading of God’s intention, inability to bear the world contacts and wrong attitude towards self and life. God and His messengers come to show us the way out of the suffering and to live life freely and with delight. But man trusts his mind and its conceptions and ideas about God rather than listen to the way that is shown, he prefers the way of doubt rather than of faith and hence the suffering is prolonged needlessly.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
