The cause of sorrow:- Pain and pleasure are two sides of the same coin.pain and pleasure are inseperable.if there is pain there is the scope of pleasure and vice versa. So what is this pain? Pain is the absence of pleasure and the same goes for definition of pleasure because they are not universal entities which have seperate and independent existence. Let us take an example which can be easily understood... There is a girl to whom i have developed liking the day i first saw her....kinda love at first sight...the girl seems to be giving importance to me and i whole heartedly welcome that...one day i get to know that the reason behind the girl giving importance to me is my friend...to get closer to him and to know my friend better she was approaching me...the story ends in tears... So it all ends in pain...the pain is due to the discovery of a deeper on going reality of which i wasnt aware of...so what went wrong? The case might have turned around the other way also...i.e.to say the girl while exploring my friends nature through me might have started liking me in the process...like how good he is,such a loyal friend,he is sweet or he is really nice... The case may have been this one also that my friend after discovering the fact that i or his friend is chatting all nights with the girl whom he likes.(a fact of which i and the girl is unaware of)it might have ended in a big fight between me and my friend. There can be an infinite cases you can also think of..no matter what, an event is likely to happen or not,there will always be some probablity pertaining to it(it wont be zero).an event can never be predicted with full certainty until it happens i.e.until it becomes a thing of the past nothing cant be said with absolute conviction.. In the end the girl either goes with me or my friend but never both,as that would go against the most fundamental law of particle physics that an entity can only be at one place at a time. Every thing or event has a cause.nothing is causeless.for eg.a night the girl called me to chat...reason:she had a fight with her mom and she was sleepless...reason: she had always believed that her mom knew nothing about being western which led to a very volatile situation when she came late at night from a party...reason:her best friends bday...reason: her friends mother had a premature delievery 17 years back which led to her friend being born on 12th july rather than the predicted date of 26th august(a sunday and the girls mother could have gone too accompanying her daughter to the party as she was a close friend of bday girls mother)...reason: reason and reasons of reasons... this shows that nothing is causeless and everything is destined to happen...thus there is only one past.not two or three... So the girl going away with my friend but not me was not causeless...or the pain i am feeling being alone was also destined to happen...so as lord krishna rightly says:what is the need to be sad about O arjuna! When everything is destinedi.e. why be sad about a destined event...(as sorrow means something happening which must not have happened and since there is nothing which happens without a cause,sorrow is baseless) So it is needless to say that the world or unlikely events happening in it are the cause of my sorrow...the cause of my sorrow in actual sense is the fact that there is absence of happiness...happiness is the product of likely events(the one you like) happening around the mind or body...they are confined in space and time i.e. sooner or later they will decay...thus there is no good in the girl calling me at night nor is there anything bad in the girl going away with my friend because all that happens has a perfectly defineable reason or explanation... So this proves there is nothing wrong with the world...the wrong is here...in us...the wrong is the wish to seek permanency in the non permanent world...this is the subsequent effect of the belief of ours that the world(mithya or unreal) is the cause of my bliss(aatma or the real)...this pleasure is not because of the world but rather it is the reflection of a higher order of bliss or aanand(belonging to the supreme changeless aatma). The aatma is constant...it appears to come with the stillness of mind and appears to be agitated or lost with agitations of mind...it so happens that the jeeva is constantly in search of happiness or bliss(in pure sense)...this is due to the ignorance of its eternal nature i.e.he,the jeeva is aatma,ever the same... This does make sense...the absence of constant bliss is the cause of constant pain...pain and pleasure are like a sinusoidal wave going up and down...pain is the presence of desire...pleasure is the fulfillment of desire...for eg.when one achieves something really big he says he wants nothing more in life and he feels the supreme bliss...so this bliss is the state of being desire free or being temporarily associated with ones eternal nature...because of the tamas shakti of maya(the cause of ignorance) one gets swayed again in the world leading to birth of furthur desires which need to be fulfilled(why need to be fulfilled?:-as he/she believes that fulfillment of desires is the cause of happiness)...rather he/she must understand that it is the ignorance of ones eternal nature that has led to the birth of the desire at the first place... Think of it...if there is the wound then only is the need of medicine...what is the need of medicine(i.e.the phala or fulfillment of desire) when there is no wound(i.e.the cause of karma or desire). Thus,the cause of pain is ignorance of the self...the cure of it is realisation of the self...the self i.e. you...what you ever have been and what you will always be...this is the claim of advait vedant...
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 07:10:23 +0000
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