Sufferings (3)

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Question: I suffer in both mind and body. From

the day of my birth I have never had happiness. My

mother too suffered from the time she conceived me, I

hear. Why do I suffer thus? I have not sinned in this

life. Is all this due to the sins of past

lives?<br><br>Maharshi: You say the mind and body suffer. But do they ask

the questions? Who is the questioner? Is it not the

one that is beyond both mind and body? You say the

body suffers in this life and ask if the cause of this

is the previous life. If that is so then the cause

of that life is the one before it, and so on. So,

like the case of the seed and the sprout, there is no

end to the causal series. It has to be said that all

the lives have their first cause in ignorance. That

same ignorance is present even now, framing this

question. That ignorance must be removed by jnana

(spiritual knowledge). <br><br>‘Why and to whom did this

suffering come?’ If you question thus you will find that

the ‘I’ is separate from the mind and body, that the

Self is the only eternal being, and that it is eternal

bliss. This is jnana.<br><br>Question: I suffer from

worries without end; there is no peace for me, though

there is nothing wanting for me to be

happy.<br><br>Maharshi: Do these worries affect you in

sleep?<br><br>Questioner: No, they do not.<br><br>Maharshi: Are you the

very same man now, or are you different from him that

slept without any worry?<br><br>Questioner: Yes, I am

the same person.<br><br>Maharshi: Then surely those

worries do not belong to you. It is your own fault if you

assume that they are yours.<br><br>more to

follow.......<br><br>Hari Aum !!!