Life is suffering / World and its sufferings

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D.: There are widespread disasters spreading havoc in the world. What is the

cause of this state of affairs ?

 

M.: To whom does all this appear ?

 

D.: That won't do. I see misery around.

 

M.: You were not aware of the world and its sufferings in your sleep ; you are

conscious of them in your wakeful state. Continue in that state in which you

were not afflicted by these. That is to say, when you are not aware of the

world, its sufferings do not affect you. When you remain as the Self, as in

sleep, the world and its sufferings will not affect you. Therefore look within.

See the Self ! There will be an end of the world and its miseries.

 

D.: But that is selfishness.

 

M.: The world is not external. Because you identify yourself wrongly with the

body you see the world outside, and its pain becomes apparent to you. But they

are not real. Seek the reality and get rid of this unreal feeling.

 

D.: There are great men, public workers, who cannot solve the problem of the misery of the world.

 

M.: They are ego-centered and therefore their inability. If they remained in the

Self they would be differant.

 

D.: Why do not Mahatmas help ?

 

M.: How do you know that they do not help ? Public speeches, physical activity

and material help are all outweighed by the silence of Mahatmas. They

accomplish more than others.

 

D.: What is to be done by us for ameliorating the condition of the world?

 

M.: If you remain free from pain, there will be no pain anywhere. The trouble

now is due to your seeing the world externally and also thinking that there is

pain there. But both the world and the pain are within you. If you look within

there will be no pain.

 

D.: God is perfect. Why did He create the world imperfect ? The work shares the

nature of the author. But here it is not so.

 

M.: Who is it that raises the question ?

 

D.: I - the individual.

 

M.: Are you apart from God that you ask this question ?

So long as you consider yourself the body you see the world as external. The

imperfections appear to you. God is perfection. His work also is perfection.

But you see it as imperfection because of your wrong identification.

 

D.: Why did the Self manifest as this miserable world ?

 

M.: In order that you might seek it. Your eyes cannot see themselves. Place a

mirror before them and they see themselves. Similarly with the creation.

" See yourself first and then see the whole world as the Self ."

 

D.: So it amounts to this - that I should always look within.

 

M.: Yes.

 

D.: Should I not see the world at all ?

 

M.: You are not instructed to shut your eyes from the world. You are only to "

see youself first and then see the whole world as the Self ". If you consider

yourself as the body the world appears to be external. If you are the Self the

world appears as Brahman.

 

 

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