Suffering -the reality

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Namaste

 

The writer of this email is dying from chronic lung disease and asthma

attacks.

His physical world is circumscribed by a 15 metre oxygen tube to which he is

connected 24 hours a day. Several times a week he faces death with severe

asthma attacks. At the age of 61 his heart will eventually give up the

struggle.

 

But while his physical world is severely limited, his spiritual world is

infinity because

of Advaita Vedanta, because everywhere he perceives the Divine, from the

ants

visiting him on the keyboard of this PC, to glimpses of the Creator in the

garden

outside the window. He does Japa alone, and seldom sees visitors, for they

are

busy with their lives, and that is how it should be.

 

Physical infirmity either implodes the spirit and results in self-pity, or

it gives one

the golden opportunity to drown in that Love which is God, to marvel every

second

of the day at all creation, to savour every morsel of food, to give thanks

and to

be at Peace - and happy.

 

Suffering is a gift - for those who recognise the Supreme Being giving it.

 

Peace and Love be with you