Tragedies of life have three kinds of effects

Tragedies of life have three kinds of effects:

1. They pull as down to vices to fill our vacuum.
2. They make us angry against those forces that created the events.
3. They lift us toward a level of a better life of striving toward perfection.

The first one occurs when people are living in physical-astral levels. The second one occurs when they are living in their lower mental plane. The third one occurs when they are in contact with their soul.

It happens sometimes that when people lose their precious friends or family members, they go through a process of purification. They conquer their habits of smoking, overeating, using alcohol, and so on.

What can be the reason why such people change and transform after such a loss or tragedy? One of the answers is that the loss, failure, or tragedy creates a vacuum in their life and shows them the futility of their habits. They feel faced with an immediate demand to fill the vacuum created around them to create a safety zone.

We see that this can be done only by filling the vacuum with virtues. The first hindrance to developing virtues and striving to fill the vacuum seems to us to be our vices or habits. So in that moment of disappointment, failure, loss, and tension, we decide to clear away our habits and stand as victors over our vices.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Cosmic Questions vol.3