Radhanath Swami explains Misery is the Mercy of the Lord

Srila Prabhupada explained to us our position. One time a devotee approached and he said, Guru Maharaj, Srila Prabhupada- ‘I am the most fallen’. And Prabhupada said –‘You are not the most anything! You are simply insignificant!’ This is very, very powerful preacher, leader of our society. ‘You are simply insignificant’. That is our eternal, constitutional position. The more we realize the Sun, the more the ray of light realizes it is insignificant. Not only it’s insignificance but also that whatever light it has, is depending not on ourselves but on a source, the Sun. In the same way, the living entity forgetting Krsna, thinks-‘I am the enjoyer’. But unfortunately trying to enjoy material life, there is so much problems, so much misery and suffering. And Krsna has designed that way out of his mercy. “Misery is the mercy of the Lord”. We may not like misery; we must understand how it is needed, it is require, to reform us, to purify us to make us detached from all of the addictions of we have there are keeping us away from Krsna.