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        Oh Lord? Why are you so mischievous? Why did you create in me desires that bind me from thinking of you? What pleasure do you get from seeing me suffer?

        This is a question put by a mystic who later became a revered person as great as God. He did get an answer in the evening of his life.

        The answer did not emerge from God but from his own experiments with life, learning to take things in stride while conquering temptations.

        This was what sage Dhoumya told Yudhishtira when the latter was overwhelmed by the misfortune of wandering in the wild, having lost everything by his gambling with dice.

        Dhoumya said to the king that God had given a wonderful opportunity to learn what should be learnt to merit composure and salvation flowing for it. The body with its proclivities for seeking good and bad refines the individual by putting him through the ordeal of fire which is suffering.

        The body is a possession that obstructs when mind attaches to it and elevates when mind rescues itself from the grip of the material as against the spiritual. Without possessions, the mind is trained to conquer desires by the impossibility of securing anything because the means to it is denied by poverty.