SUFFERING TO LOVE

Today we will discuss a familiar topic, “Cause of suffering.” Everyone goes through some kind of challenge, suffering, in their life, and there is no problem that we cannot solve. To solve, we have to walk on that path, road & that road is always under our feet. This is something we don’t realize many a time. Let me quote Jim Carrey here, “I am happy that I’m rich and famous. Because I am rich, I am famous, I know that it is not what gave me happiness.” Money and richness doesn’t immune us from sufferings. 

Most often we don’t understand the difference between suffering and pain. Suffering is the mental, emotional suffering, and pain is the physical pain of the body which can be taken care by medications. Suffering of the mind gets us into problems. Lack of love is the cause of suffering. We are not talking about the love we have for our siblings, parents or pets. We are referring to the divine love which we have never tasted. To experience this, we have to connect to the source that created us, Cosmic energy, God.

When humanity happened, when first man walked on the earth, he was close to the source, the creator. We have heard stories where humans were actually connected to God. Eg : Krishna and Jesus. With each life after life, we have moved away from divinity. This distance has blurred our minds. Our minds have become darker, black. Now there is a thick dark wall between the source and us. The need of the hour is to break that wall & connect with the source.

As a butterfly goes through a hard process from lava to pupa, then breaks the cocoon to fly. This difficult process makes it strong for its future life. Similarly in life we have to undergo a process for inner transformation. Please ask for help to the universe, you will get it. Universe is built in such a way that it is always there to help us. The divine love should arise in our heart and it does happen when we start our inner journey.

Life is based on two wings (just like a bird has), one is external world and the other is inner world. We know all the happenings of the external world, about our planet, beyond the planet, galaxies. Science has reached way out but no one knows what is inside us. Lots of people don’t know there are 7 chakras(energy centers) in our body, panch koshas (layers) covering us. It is high time we start our inner journey. When our inner journey & external journey are hand-in-hand with each other, that’s when we fly like a bird and enjoy the bliss.