When Everything and Everyone Have Left You!

It is often good if everything you relied upon is taken away from you, and you are left without any worldly support. It is good if all old values, friendships and attachments are broken, and you find all that you had clung to disappearing into the blue. It is good that all forms of external consolation, all hopes in other people, crumble. For then you will be forced to turn to the Divine, who alone is our eternal and only true friend and guide. 

Swami Yatiswarananda

This experience is very painful, but for many people it is very necessary. Otherwise, they forget God and their own spiritual destiny. You do not know anything about your own future. You cannot rely on perishable things. But that is what people do. Sometimes, the treatment is more painful than the diseases, but one has to undergo it. The stronger the disease, the stronger must be the treatment.

...All suffering is for our training. Our instincts are to be controlled and burnt in the fire of spiritual striving. 

Source: [Chap 17] pg. 266, Meditation and Spiritual Life by Yatiswarananda