Living in God's Glory

THE TEST OF ADVERSITY reached home than he collapsed. he was taken to london’s Middlesex hospital, where he regained consciousness for a while. “What is wrong with me, doctor?” he inquired. The doctors told him that they would be able to say within five minutes after a check-up. however, he died before the doctors could complete their examination. it was Mr Birla’s wish that his last rites should be performed at the place of his death. accordingly, he was cremated at an electric crematorium in london, and his ashes were brought to india to be scattered in the rivers of his motherland. Mr Birla wrote many books. The hindi title of one of them is ‘Rupaye ki Kahaani’ (Money Story). however, in the end, Mr Birla’s “Money story” became a story of ashes. so it is with everyone in this world. Everyone is busy recording his success story, ignorant that what awaits him at the end of life’s journey is a story of failure rather than success. THE TEST OF ADVERSITY Those who exhibit divine character traits even in the face of adversity are the only creatures who will have the honour to live near the neighbourhood of God— Paradise—when they enter the world Hereafter. God, in creating man, endowed him with the nobility of character. he then set him down in a world fraught with