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   Why there is Suffering?      

     Why do we have suffering in the world?. Especially in human life there are so many disasters apart from natural calamities. There are accidents, life threatening diseases, loss of wealth, loss of relationship, death of loved ones and many more. In some time of our life or the other we undergo lots of hardships and some times we under go terrible sufferings mentally and physically.

     If we use the emotional mind and seek answers we will never find one. But using the intellect our spiritual masters tell that suffering pushes  us to move forward  in our evolutionary process to complete  our journey. All the sufferings gives a push to remove our tamas (laziness) to move forward. It is like a student getting punishments  to study well. Similarly Some receive very hard blow and some small,  depending upon their tamasic nature.  Punishments are not for sadistic reasons but to drive the student to seek knowledge and so are we getting sufferings and pain so that we seek the light of intellect and awareness, which leads us to realize our true Self.

   The below figure explains the reason for all suffering and pain in a nutshell. When we go away from the light of intellect and awareness we end up in suffering and pain and when we go more closer towards this inner light we experience bliss. If we suffer from body and mental diseases then we have gone too much in seeking sensual pleasures. We have tortured our body and mind to the extent that the natural laws have been violated and so ends up in a chaos which is called as disease. Then the mental and physical pain is to set us in the right direction. We will undergo this process until we learn it proper.

   This applies to even a financial problem in life. When we live a life towards sensual seeking pleasures only and go beyond our means ,we end up in crisis. The Ego instead of enjoying the wealth ends up in "show off's" because of pride and ends up in deep trouble.

               "If you are confronted with a health problem, ask yourself:
                               "Have I abused my body?"
               If you are confronted with a financial problem, ask yourself:
                              "Have I lived within my means?"
              If you are faced with a psychological problem, ask yourself:
                            "Have I been as loving as God would want me to be?"

What you do in the present creates the future, so use the present to create a wonderful future. - Peace pilgrim (please Click here  to know about peace pilgrim)

   In summary all negatives thoughts pull towards the direction of Ego and pain and so we undergo suffering and pain in life. So bring out positive thoughts in life and create a blissful life. Your thoughts are responsible for the suffering and bliss in life.

Does this mean we should not enjoy life and give up all desires in life?

         No.

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        Awakening

       Awakening happens to most of us only when we get a shock in life. With a very intense problem in life, we go inward analyzing and inquiring why we end up in suffering. Many would say during such sufferings that they had not harmed any one in life and why do they suffer such great pains in life. Vedanta says that the reason is because they had forgotten about their journey to their Source. A quiet disciplined student cannot complain if he gets beating for his poor marks in his examination. What matters for a student is to study well and get out of the school. similarly we are here not to get detained and re-appear in the same class room for ever. We have graduate from this world. if not we have to learn through a tough shock in life.

      Vedanta gives a easy way to go through this evolution. This is why Vedanta has appealed only a few because it requires initial discipline and practice but later is highly rewarding. Only few students study well from the beginning of the school. Most of the students play and do all activities that is not befit of a student, but in the end of the school only if they get  shock , do they awaken to their studies. the same way some one who lives life with a discipline in mind goes through this spiritual school without shocks and knocks in life.

   Peace pilgrim, a great saint who walked  more than 40, 000 miles by foot for world peace, seven times across USA without a single penny in her hand, with no food and shelter, says she used to pray to see less problems inhuman life. Later when she became enlightened she prayed that humans should get more problems and suffering so that they will move closer to the Self.

 Positive thoughts the best road map in our journey of life

      One has no choice in avoiding this evolution. We are all fated to evolve. We cannot change the fate,  but we have free will to choose how we want to evolve. all that depends on the thoughts we entertain. the positive thoughts help us move forward cushioning the pain and suffering, which otherwise would be bolstered by negative thoughts. Positive thoughts will not mushroom in our mind any time we need. It has to be grown and nurtured in the garden of our mind, carefully monitoring the overriding weeds of negative thoughts. This is a process that we are giving through the life style of Pancha Bhoota.

      We are totally responsible for our thoughts and action. As discussed earlier our Ego wants to blame God or evil spirits for our suffering. No one other than our thoughts are responsible for our pain and suffering. If we shoulder good thoughts naturally we end up in good fruits in our garden of life.

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                 Karma      

No one controlling us, but the laws of our own nature.

     Here we have to be clear that no one is sitting some wherein heaven and giving us punishments and rewards. We have the free will to think our thoughts and get the results of our own action.  Two people might be doing the same actions but might have two different results and it might look confusing. But using intellect we will understand that  actions  are influenced by so many factors.

    Example, two individuals might go for a party and had the same food and drinks. The same day or the next day one of the two might develop indigestion problem or get a cold. When two did the same action of going to a party and had the same environment, and  developed two results, because of the difference in the emotional and physical status of the individuals.

    So the results of the actions are inseparable from the very action , which is depended on the previous factors of the body and mind which we call as karma. So the results of our action are based on the very actions and the factors of the past. Like the above example the individual who got cold after going tot he party had stress and so his immunity was down. With these "past" factors when he went to the party though his friend and himself was exposed to cold virus , only he due to the stress factors got the cold.

      We understand from the previous page that every action is governed by a set of rules of nature that are inherent in the very action itself. However there are unseen factors that also influence the course of the end results of the actions. So every action  influenced the result of other actions and sets in   the Similarly Some receive very hard blow and some small,  depending upon their tamasic nature.  Punishments are not for sadistic reasons but to drive the student to seek knowledge and so are we getting sufferings and pain so that we seek the light of intellect and awareness, which leads us to realize our true Self.

Government puts a person in jail who does not pay tax. Isnt this an irony? The government has to spend money on this fellow for keep him in jail give him food pay the police etc, Why?. The person is made to undergo mental agony in the jail and has to repent and contemplate for the mistakes. This way the government feels that the person will evolve and be good in soceity. These rules were also formed in india. Swathi Thirunal was one of the kings  who relaxed such rules in Kerala. Here lies the answer for suffering in Karma also. When we dont pay the cosmic tax, then the comsic officers, Navagrahs make us undergo the mental agony and so we contemplate life and move on in our inner evolution.
This is why we are given life after life and the cosmic government spends PanchaBhootas Energy for us to repair ourselves. This is the Karmic secret. What we do when we are in this Jail?, Are we contemplating why we are suffering in life?. we destroy the jail (this planet) that is the planet resources, creating more  burden of karmic debts. No one wants to get of this jail?

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       Internal war 

       Major difference between "Sanatana Dharma" or Vedic  tradition is that other spiritual traditions ask man to give up desires, because desires is the root cause of all pain and sufferings. A practical question is how to give up desires when even giving up desire itself a desire. It is impractical to live life without desires. Vedic tradition says there is no problem in desires but the root cause of pain and suffering is because we lose the awareness of our true "Self". (please do not skip reading  the previous page for details).

         There is always the factor of Ego in us that prevent us from being in the state of Awareness or true Self. This internal war between the Ego and the transcendence to our true self is the theme of Vedic-Puranas. The war between the Devas (Gods) and Asuras (demons) is our own  internal war. Every time when the Gods or Devas forget their won nature (True Self), they lose their power and are driven out of heaven by the Asuras (pain and suffering). They would finally seek refuge in intellect or pure Consciousness (Vishnu) and Awareness (shiva) (details in Puranas section).

Loss of Awareness of the Self leads to suffering

      Whatever actions we may be involved if we are not aware of our Self and do not take steps in progressing in our evolutionary journey, then in the form of pain and suffering we will be mercilessly be pushed forward. As we said  earlier like driving the car we can talk and listen to music but cannot afford to lose the awareness of driving and also keep track of the directions. If we do not keep of directions again it is a pain to get back to the right road.

     We started from Pancha Bhoota healing giving you this direction to evolve forward without undergoing pain and suffering in the life's journey. All the health approaches would seem to take care of the body, but in the deeper level, the five steps help you to strengthen your intellect and then be aware of your true self.

     The final stages in the journey is to completely purify the mind from the grips of the Ego thought "I". This is achieved by understanding the Upanishads which is simplified as Bhagavad Gita. Gita helps one to transcend the Ego and attain Self-realization.

     Sakthi Gita is the practical approach of living the essence of Bhagavad Gita and complete the Journey to the Source. This is the easiest way to get relief from pain and sufferings of life.