Thinking of God Prevents Misery

Sri Ramana Maharshi

This morning Yogi Ramiah arrived. About 9-30 a.m. Bhagavan was looking into the Tamil paper Hindusthan and read out to me the following dialogue from it. 

1st man: It is only if sorrows or troubles come to us that we think of God. 

2nd man: Ah, you fool. If we are always thinking of God, how can any sorrows or troubles come to us? 

Why Bhagavan drew my attention to this, I do not know. I wonder if it is because I generally argue with him that it should not be necessary for an all-powerful and all-loving God to make us pass through pain to turn us towards Him. Most of the day the proof correction went on.