Suffering Is Your Creation

" never think u r suffering its just the thought of braing that u could not be able to pass through.... if u avoid that life will be easy... u will  not feel the tension"



What is the difference between pain and suffering?



What is pain? Pain is a protective mechanism. Right now, you would not
have the necessary intelligence to preserve yourself if there was no
pain in your body. Wherever there is no pain in your body, look what
you have done. Your hair, for example, how could you cut it into
different shapes and sizes? Only because there is no pain. Suppose
there was no pain in your nose, in the name of fashion, how many ways
would you have cut it by now? Wherever there is a little bit of pain
in your body, you put a few holes in it, but if there was no pain at
all, you would cut your body into ribbons. If you were walking on the
street and a bicycle came towards you, you would step back, not out of
humility, but because you know the consequence of pain.


So, pain is good for you. Pain is a natural process, but suffering is
not a natural process. It is always your creation. If pain comes and
you respond to it, there will be no suffering; but if you react to it,
there will be suffering. There are any numbers of examples like this.
In South India, there was a yogi and sage called Sadashiva Brahmendra.
Sadashiva was a nirkaya, which literally means "bodiless yogi." How
does somebody become bodiless? If you sit in meditation, you may find
that your hands, legs or some parts of the body are missing. They have
not gone anywhere, but in your experience they are missing simply
because you have transcended the limitations of the senses in a
limited way. It can happen to the whole body. If you touch the body,
it will be there, but in your experience, it is not there. It is a
wonderful way to live. You are in the body but you are no more the
body; that is what it ultimately means to be spiritual. In your
experience, you are no longer bound by the limitations of the body.


Sadashiva was a nirkaya, he had no sense of the body. And because he
had no sense of the body, he did not think about wearing clothes, he
just walked naked. He happened to walk into the king's garden while
the king was relaxing with his queens. The king became angry, "Who is
this fool walking naked in front of my wives?" He sent his soldiers to
find out who he was. The soldiers called Sadashiva Brahmendra from
behind, but he didn't turn back, he just kept on walking. The soldiers
became angry and took out a sword and chopped off his right arm, but
he still kept walking. He did not even break a stride. Now the
soldiers were terrified, "This is not an ordinary man. We chopped off
his arm and he keeps walking." So the king, soldiers and everyone else
went and fell at his feet, and brought him back to the garden.
Sadashiva Brahmendra lived there for the rest of his life. Even today,
this place is preserved in a certain way.


The example that most people in the West probably understand best is
Jesus. If somebody were to drive nails into your hands and legs, what
you would do? You would scream and yell and curse the whole world. But
it seems he said, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Could a man say this if he was suffering? There was definitely pain in
his body. His body was probably much more sensitive than yours, so
definitely there was pain in his body, but there was no suffering.
Otherwise, a man could not speak like this.



Pain is a natural process in the body. Suffering is self created. Once
you stop suffering, you are suddenly free from what is happening to
your body, and you are free from what is happening to the world. Once
the possibility of suffering is taken away from your life, you
suddenly have no issues with the world; you can just live your life
the way you want. Only when the fear of suffering is no more will you
walk full stride and dare to explore the full potential of the life
process that you are.