From a spiritual point of view it is good to remain amidst great uncertainty. 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.

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 disease, but one has to undergo it. The stronger the disease. the stronger must be the treatment. In the case of every disease there is a curative crisis and this is a step leading to perfect cure.

Sometimes I pray to the Lord to send the devotees misery and trials, to make them suffer and pass through hardships, so that they may come to their senses. Maya is so powerful that people forget all their past sufferings and just go on in their old ways. Something is needed to remind them constantly of the Divine.

All suffering is for our training. Our instincts are to be controlled and burnt in the fire of spiritual striving. When the iron rod has become crooked it needs some hammering.

Reference: Meditation and Spiritual Life by Swami Yatiswarananda (p.266)