Is World the Cause of Pain and Sorrow?

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Dear Prasad Garu and all other Members of TBP,

 

Love and Love alone...

 

Here is one more answer straight from the Horse's mouth. I need not

add or delete anything from it. I hope it should answer your

question in its totality.

 

Love and Love alone....

 

P. Gopi Krishna.

 

 

Is World the Cause of Pain and Sorrow?

 

The world does not cause pain to anyone. It is the assumed, the

acknowledged link with the world that inflicts pain.

 

Man does not have the freedom of choice in the situations and

circumstances that come his way. Nor is he free in eliminating or

avoiding these situations and circumstances. He is free to choose

between being happy or unhappy in the situations and circumstances

that come his way. He is also free to choose in not indulging in

enjoyments. This choice of being happy and unhappy is entirely upto

man. Man is free, capable and empowered in making these choices.

 

Just as thirst and longing for water makes a person miserable,

though the water itself if not the cause of the misery. Similarly

the attachment to the world with the expectation of gaining

happiness is the cause of misery, while the world by itself is not

the cause of misery and unhappiness.

 

He who does not establish a relationship with someone for the sake

of seeking happiness, lives and dies happy. Those who establish a

relationship with others with the intent of seeking something, they

remain unhappy while alive and at the same time they also die being

unhappy.

 

A sufferer of pain can become happy in the future, but one who is

the cause of pain, a giver of pain, can never be happy.

 

Passion, anger, fear, love, joy, sorrow, and compassion - these

seven sensations influence our mind and melt it. Desires satiated in

the past, though non-existent in the present, are like melted wax,

blended in and manifest with the right triggers or timing. In truth,

the past is no more in existence. Why let the non-existent cause

melting, pain or fear? The key point to remember is that all of

these situations and experiences are not in the present. That is the

absolute sure thing.

 

From " Drops of Nectar " by Swami Ramsukhdasji in English pg. 80

 

Need a suggestion from our group

Posted by: " prasad.sivapuram "

prasad.sivapuram

Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:26 am (PST)

Hello Members,

I am the member of this group and learning lot of things from the

mails disturbed to all with this medium.

I have one problem and would like to mitigate it before it bursts

and damage my life.

In brief the problem is control of my mind.

To explain the above problem,

I am getting disturbed by so many thoughts and feelings when

ever I have free time. Means I need to be engaged in any work, which

is also not good every time. Every time I feel that GOD is not

looking at me or testing me or I might have done some mistakes.

 

just to give a example, if I get a small heated discussion

with my wife then I start thinking of all the bad happenings to my

life starting from the childhood to till day and felt very bad to

express that feelings go beyond the existence. There is no limit to

the subject on which I get the feelings be it a project work,

company, colleagues, family, friends, relatives, others etc?

 

Hope you understand my problem. If not please let me know your

doubts if any.

What I am looking for a possible solution which can mitigate my

thoughts and put my mind in a good direction and in a positive way

too.

 

Regards

Prasad Sivapuram

ABD-NFH Group

03T/033A

Tel: +32-2-202.9441

Gopi Krishna <gopi