Pain perceived as noxious by us, so prevented; is in fact an elixir that can painfully empower, strengthen, purify and therefore gradually imparts us with inner power & freedom with grace.
Pain can be physical, mental, spiritual, of hunger & thirst, of tears & cries, of love & lust, of disease & disability, of injustice & inequality, of abuse & betrayal, of lies & cheats, of losing & selflessness, of struggles and defeats, of slavery & poverty, of ignorance and ultimate pain of our perceived physical disappearance - to the inevitable Death - the Dissolution.
Pleasure perceived as an elixir by us, thus pursued; on the contrary can be noxious, as it sedately disarms, de-conditions, adulterates and therefore instills us with attachment, imprisons us with fear manifesting as panic and anxiety - very ungraceful.
Pleasure also can very similarly be physical, mental, spiritual, of food & drink, of love & lust, of health & ability, of justice & superiority, of control & command, of selfishness & stealing, of struggles & victories, of mastery & wealth, of wisdom and ultimate pleasure of our physical reflection - as robust Life, the physical Body - the Illusion.
The Need & thus the Struggle is to just switch the perception of our receptors, conditioned by years of physical, social and mental conditioning - that we humans have been put through. Now the need is to perceive & observe only, without reaching to react immediately - Patience is the key transformer, the miracle medicine, the magic wand, a bitter blessing in a deadly disguise...!
Peace precipitates only unto those of us who despite being in immense Pain, still have the courage to patiently pick up the subtle clues embedded amongst the prevalent patterns of mental-physical conditioning, that have been driven from centuries by the mere shadows of Fear.
Fear of having the Pains, Fear of not having the Pleasures and then the Fear of Freedom from this conditioning - that has been acquired by our minds but is certainly not something that we were born with.
Freedom from this virtual Fear within our perception, is the real freedom that we are after. Freedom form this fear brings every other freedom along with it very effortlessly but never the other way round.
It's very very uneasy, as the patient struggle to switch the perception while in Pain intensifies, so does the perceived spasms of pleasure and pangs of pain, but then slowly somewhere deep inside of ourselves, manifests the transformation, which frees us from the oscillating illusion of the 'pain-pleasure syndrome' and provides us with an endless stream of joy amidst & irrespective of the prevalence of either pain or pleasure - the Ultimate Freedom...the Goal of Existence...The inherent Godness in Humans...!
All the worshipped, revered, hailed, celebrated - The Gods, the Prophets, the Angels, the Sages, the Saints, the Legends known to us in the known history of this universe - had probably struggled and then achieved the detachment upto an extent from the illusion of pleasurable physicality and thus had set themselves relatively free from this bondage of physical illusion - the fearful fragmentation of universe...which in reality is a fearless fullness - where all is intertwined in solitary sacred subtle thread of Life energy. This realisation primarily imparts spiritual & mental freedom & then brings with it all other Freedoms and all other Powers but with Grace & Humility - The Peaceful Kingdom of Freedom.
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Thank God we are Free and yet we are God.
Perhaps, the essence of Geetha in a way.
But having being socially conditioned to the way we live right now, I struggle with the question - what is this life, its purpose, where all we do is to struggle.. struggle against pain or (those who are on the path to enlightenment) struggle to detach from pain? It just seems like an immense futile cycle.
As a digression, If this is all by the supreme creator, as believed by some religions, to test us, then isn't it a cruel thing to do?
On other note, what about those who have succumbed, in fact, those who have successfully built lives entangled in carnal/materialistic desires? Those that sneer at the concept of detachment saying that doesn't feed the hungry belly at the end of the day.
It all looks like a big mess to me. Perhaps, ignorance is bliss? :)
Very powerful (at times head spinning) contemplations from you by the way. It takes someone to go through intense struggle to understand them, I believe. I can't, most of the times! :)
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