Words from the Mater

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Nithyananda

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We invite pain upon

ourselves

ONE man was seen walking in great pain. Another man asked him,

‘What happened? Do you have any sort of stomach ache or leg pain or

something?’ The man replied, ‘No. The

shoes I am wearing are too small.’ The other man was surprised

and asked, ‘Then why are you wearing them?’

 

The first man replied, ‘Yes, I am

suffering now, but in the evening when I remove the shoes, it is such a relief

and great joy. You don’t know how enjoyable it is to feel the

relief when I remove them!’ This may look silly. But if we look into our

lives, we are also doing exactly the same

thing!

 

We invite pain upon ourselves. We

may not be able to believe this, but every single pain we experience in life is

invited by us. It is just like inviting guests to our house, calling them again

and again, but when they finally arrive we say we were not expecting them! We invite pain and disease upon ourselves with our

immoderate habits and stressful lifestyles, and then forget all about it and

complain later when disease happens.

 

Every time we experience pain, it leaves behind some residual feeling that

remains stuck in the body. This accumulated pain creates a negative energy

field around us, which we call the ‘pain body’. The pain body not

only stores, but also starts reproducing many different kinds of pains.

 

Again and again, we share what we create. That’s what I always tell

people — if wealth is created

out of a pain body, you will transfer the pain body along with the wealth to

the next generation. Wealth

should be created just out of a relaxed and blissful mood. Then the wealth can

be enjoyed by the person you pass it on to.

 

The pain body constantly attracts the same kind of people and situations that

make you feel hurt. By the very law of nature, you attract similar situations

in your life. What you think, you create in your life as reality. So the more

pain you harbor, the more pain you attract.

 

When you can maintain your centre, when you can be centered on your being while

facing deep physical pain or mental suffering, you will see that you just go

beyond it. When you go deeply, when you become more aware, more conscious, you

suddenly realize that you are affected and disturbed more by the

‘internal reality’ within you, than by the real incident that

caused the pain. Sometimes, if you just avoid

the words that you constantly repeat like, ‘pain, pain,’

‘suffering, suffering,’ you will escape from the pain that you

might otherwise go through.

 

 

 

 

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