Sufferings qna

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Question: How can you say that suffering is non-existent? I see it

everywhere.

 

Maharshi: One's own reality, which shines within everyone as the

Heart, is itself the ocean of unalloyed bliss. Therefore like the

unreal blueness of the sky, misery does not exist in reality but only

in mere imagination. Since one's own reality, which is the sun of

jnana (Spiritual knowledge) that cannot be approached by the dark

delusion of ignorance, itself shines as happiness, misery is nothing

but an illusion caused by the unreal sense of individuality. In truth

no one has ever experienced any such thing other than that unreal

illusion. If one scrutinises one's own Self, which is bliss, there

will be no misery at all in one's life. One suffers because of the

idea that the body, which is never oneself, is `I'; suffering is all

due to this delusion.

 

-- Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

Hari Aum !!!