To make people release themselves from identification with material forms, Nature uses drastic methods, such as natural calamities and various forms of disaster. Going through such disasters, a person eventually awakens to the unreality of that with which he was identified. As long as the human spirit is lost in matter, it cannot use matter to achieve self-mastery. Instead, the person becomes the slave of matter.
Natural disasters and calamities open new windows and doors within our being. We see the true value of the objects and activities of life. They draw us into spiritual maturity; we no longer waste time playing with our former toys.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Cosmic Questions vol.3
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