Ramana Maharshi says All suffering in the world is for good sake

[Guest guest]

D - Devotee

M - Ramana Maharshi

 

 

D.: I have a toothache; is that only a thought?

 

B.: Yes.

 

D.: Then why can’t I think that there is no toothache, and so cure myself?

 

B.: One does not feel the toothache when one is absorbed in other thoughts or

when asleep.

 

D.: But still it remains.

 

B.: So strong is man’s conviction of the reality of the world that it is not

easily shaken off. But the world is no more real than the individual who sees

it.

 

D.: But why should there be suffering now?

 

B.: If there were no suffering, how could the desire to be happy arise? If that

desire did not arise, how could the quest of the Self arise?

 

D.: Then is all suffering good?

 

B.: Yes. What is happiness? Is it a healthy and handsome body, regular meals and

so on? Even an emperor has endless troubles although he may be in good health.

So all suffering is due to the false notion ‘I am the body’. Getting rid of this

is knowledge.

 

Source: The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi in His Own Words book

 

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Om namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram