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Next Ekadasi: August 6, 2010
Are tests manifestation of the mercy of the Lord?

Teachers mercifully arrange for examinations in order to take students to a higher class. For attentive, intelligent students, examinations are a source of happiness.

Only the inattentive students are afraid of or dislike examinations.
Those who glorify material enjoyment and who speak accordingly to their audience's taste do not face danger, inconvenience, or obstacles in their preaching, but those who preach about devotional service and the soul's eternal propensity face many difficulties. These inconveniences come and try to cause disencouragement. But those who have taken shelter of devotional service should definitely know that these obstacles have come to test our love and determination for the Lord's service; they are actually assisting us in our progressive advancement on the devotional path.
We should remain firmly fixed in devotional service while accepting the ideal examples of namacarya Haridas Thakura and the topmost devotee, Prahlada Maharaj. Both of them exhibited a wonderful service attitude and a high degree of tolerance. Simply to achieve something temporary, human beings are baffled for hundreds of lifetimes. if in spite of seeing thousands of examples of failure, such people will even dare to give up their lives to attain insignificant enjoyment, then can't intelligent and fortunate devotees dedicate their temporary lives to understand the Supreme Lord, who is the Absolute Truth for all time?