Suffering is useful and necessary, because it allows us to know, through the pain we feel, what evil thoughts, words and actions generate, and thus to take the firm resolution never to do evil again in any form whatsoever, to anyone, human, animal or vegetable.

Suffering is useful and necessary because it reduces the mass of sinful acts accumulated during all our previous lives, and erases the sins inherent in these malicious and even criminal acts.

Suffering is useful and necessary because it allows us to have an accurate idea of the pain felt by the person we hurt in our previous life, being then indifferent to the cries they made. It also allows us to know “that what we have done will be done to us”.

Suffering is useful and necessary, because it allows us to become aware of our evil deeds, to do penance, to repent, to ask for forgiveness, to turn to God, to respect and definitively apply the divine precepts, laws and commandments.

We must also understand that we constantly suffer the consequences of our sinful acts committed in our past life. Karma in this case acts as infallible justice. It is through karma, or the law of cause and effect, that we can correct our behavior and improve ourselves.

God, the Supreme and Absolute Person, teaches us about the ideal attitude to adopt: “Ephemeral, joys and sorrows, like summers and winters, come and go. They are only due to the encounter of the senses with matter, and one must learn to tolerate them, without being affected by them”.

We cannot escape the sufferings in this world, the only remedy is to tolerate them, to accept them and to bear them, and whoever manages not only to tolerate the miseries of this world, but also manages to remain calm and serene before joys and sorrows of this world, is worthy of liberation.