CHAPTER 10 Eliminating The Cause of Pain
If you just look into all the pleasures or joy that you get in life from the world for anything, they all come with a tax, you have to pay a tax for them and this tax is sorrow. In the next sutra, Patanjali says:
parinama-tapa samskara duhkair guna-vrtti virodhac-ca duhkham-eva sarnam vivekina
Every event causes some pain. However an event is pleasant because an event finishes, ends, so the ending of an event however pleasurable, joyful has been, comes to you with a little pinch, pain. Greater the joy, greater the pain also. Isn’t it? Parinaam dukha, effect of, result of an event leaves you in pain. Paap dukha, longing for an event, waiting for a pleasurable, pleasant event is again pain. Samskara dukha, the impressions of it, memories of it, memories of pleasure also brings pain. Before you want something, that wanting, that feverishness to achieve what you want is all painful. When you have it, the fear of losing it is painful. When it is gone, the memory of its joy is painful. So the whole thing is all painful.
For a Viveki, for an intelligent person, for one whose wisdom is awakened, he sees the whole thing as pain. So there is nothing that is not pain. Sarvaevam dukha viveki, everything is painful. You say love is so beautiful, but love is also painful. How much close you can get, bodies can get closer but still it is not satisfied. Each cell wants to enter into the other body. How much it can enter? Not possible! Its gets frustrated. Often a male takes a female body and female takes a male body in the next life. That is what the craving or longing is there in the mind, more prominent. That’s why in every male also you find a female, and every female you find a male, because there are some impressions from the past running through.
Soul is not satisfied just by the physical body coming closer. It wants something more. It wants to merge, it wants to vanish and disappear. This is what you call love. In love there are two expressions. One is I want to disappear into you, or I want to eat you and you disappear. There are the two expressions that lovers say to each other. They don’t know what they are saying. They say you are so sweet I want to eat you up. Carnival. Cannibalism. Love takes you to a cannibalism. Really if that was possible, each one would do that literally, reduce their boyfriend or girlfriend into a small toy and gulp it through. So there is no more worry, whom they are looking into, where they are seeing, where they go. Otherwise your mind is constantly engaged in looking at where your friend is, what they are doing, whom they are looking at. Lovers become watch dogs after a while. Often when they come to the course, they don’t meditate. They open their eyes and see, is my girlfriend meditating? How is she doing? Is she enjoying the course? I forced her to come to the course, is she having good experience? Many times we have to tell him, you keep your eyes shut and go deep inside, you meditate. Don’t worry about your girlfriend. We will take care of her. If that was really possible, people would do that, they would swallow, gulp their girlfriend or boyfriend in through their throat, keep them safe. I keep you in my heart, physically they will do it. Keep them in the heart, very safe or in the tummy. Can’t look at anybody, do anything without one’s permission, can’t leave you and go.
Love also creates pain, tremendous amount of pain. Separation creates pain, tremendous amount of pain. A want, a wish creates tremendous amount of pain, pressure on the mind. And then trying to please one creates pain and to know whether they are pleased or not pleased creates pain. You want to know total the mind of other person. How is it possible? You don’t know your own mind and you want to know somebody else’s mind. It’s impossible to know anybody’s mind just by their words or movement of their lips and tongue. Tongue has no bone so it can just move anyway it wants. It has no value. It has no loyalty. Tongue has no bone. It’s not steady. Something it says today, and tomorrow it says something else. You cannot trust your tongue, you can trust anything in the world. Doing somebody else, what is their wish, their wish, sitting on it is painful. And when you experience some good feelings, love and wonderful joy and suddenly next moment when it is not there, that is even painful. If you do spiritual practices, to do that it needs an effort that is painful. And you don’t do it, not doing it creates even more painful. Oh! I did not meditate, don’t feel good at all. When you meditate, oh! It’s finishing, not done enough or it’s not happening. Something to complain.
Sarvamevadukhavevekinam. If you really look from the eyes of wisdom, there is not a bit in this creation which is devoid of pain. Pain is the tail of everything in the world. It comes along with anything you take it and you get a free coupon with them, pain. Buy anything, you will get double, you know the double is pain coupon.
In the next sutra, what do you do?
When you realize that everything is pain, then how do you go ahead about, what you do? You have to do something to stop this pain. How will you do it?
heyam duhkham-anagatam
The root cause of pain is needed to be eliminated. We need to eliminate the dukha. That pain which has not yet come in life, that sorrow which has not yet sprouted should be nipped off right at the beginning. How do we do that?
drastr-dersyayoh samyoga heya-hetuh
Forgetfulness of one’s self as separate from one’s environment is the main cause of Dukha. The self, the seer and the seen. The self and the object that is all around the self. Lack of perception of this. That me and this. You think this is me, then the problem begins. Generally we keep our life somewhere else. We do not keep our life in us. You know in olden day story. There used to be a small island after many islands. There used to be a fort in that small island. And in that island and in the fort, there is a palace. In the palace, there is a house. In the house, there is somebody. Have you heard about these story? See that life of the king is in a parrot in some other place. So if the parrot is killed, the king will die there. Have you heard about this type of story? Oh… This story comes in India. I think in China there also has this type of story. That the king’s life is not in the king, the king will not die if anybody does anything to him, likes a superman. If you have to kill the king, you have to go to a particular island. It’s very hard to get into that fort and then with all the adventure, some superman will get into the fort. And then there is a palace and the palace is full of cobras and what not. He has to get pass to all that, it’s all the great thrill. You know and then he goes and he gets into the underground. And in the underground suddenly the door opens and he gets in there…To make the story more and more interesting. And then there is a cage and in the cage this parrot. And the cage is unapproachable, you can not touch the cage because if you touch, you may burn down. Without touching the cage, you have to kill the parrot. If you kill the parrot, the king there somewhere would die or whatever that villain that will end.
The life is not in one self. Life is in somewhere else in the bank account. They have not just deposited money, along with the money, you deposit life also in the bank. If the bank closes or something happens, money goes and here they will have heart failure. Do you see what I’m saying? Whatever you think as, you give more important, any matter or material thing you give more important than life, that becomes the cause of suffering. So when you see the difference, that seer, the life separate from surrounding. I am not the body and through meditation you can do this experience. What he says,
prakasa-kriya-sthiti silam bhuta indriya atmakam bhoga apavarga-artham dersyam
That doesn’t mean you have to run away from this world. This world is here for your enjoyment. Patanjali is very clear on this. This beautiful sceneries are here for you to look at it. Great food is here, is for you to eat and enjoy. The whole world is here for you to enjoy, but while enjoying don’t forget yourself. You are separate from that. This is Viveka. Do you see that? Prakasa-kriya-sthiti silam bhuta indriya atmakam bhoga apavarga-artham dersyam. This seen world is illuminating. Each thing gives you a message, conveys you a message, gives you an idea of how great the consciousness is. Every aspect in this world is an expression of consciousness and everything is active. Prakasa means manifesting. Everything is manifested of this consciousness. They manifest, flowers come up. Kriya Everything in this universe is dynamic and there is nothing that is static. Even the mountain appears to be static but they are not static, they are all dynamic. Every atom is dynamic in this universe. Sthiti. They all undergo certain stages of evolution. Everything has its stage, has a state and everything is governed by certain principles, certain qualities.
Bhuta indriya atmakam The entire creation is made up of five elements. Five elements and five sense organs. Five organs of perception and five organs of action. These are ten organs. The entire creation is endowed with this ten plus mind also as one. Bhoga apavarga-artham dersyam. This entire creation is there to give you pleasure and relief. Whatever gives you pleasure should also give you relief. Do you see I’m saying? Otherwise the very pleasure becomes pain. It’s like you like apple pie. 1, or 2, or 3 apple pie, you love it! And you will do anything in life to have an apple pie, or whatever, Gulabjamun something, ok, you have it. But 1st ,2nd ,3rd ,4th and then the 5th one already become too much. And then another 7th , 8th , 10th ,12th ,13th , the same thing which gave you pleasure is now makes you suffer. And if you are forced to eat twenty apple pies, you will hold your head. You will say, oh! My God! I want relief from it. I want to get away from this. Enough is enough. I cannot hold anymore. Same with music. Ok, you like beautiful music. How long can you enjoy music? 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours. If someone puts 24 hours music for 7 days a week and you will say, “Please can you shut this off?” That wonderful music which gave you so much pleasure if it’s overdone brings you pain. So that has to give you a relief also. Do you see that? The entire creation gives you enjoyment and liberation and relieves you, liberates you. You have to get yourself liberated from all these at some time or other; otherwise the pleasure becomes pain.
He goes on describing it, how there are grades in it.
There are certain things: Rajasic, Tamasic and Sattvic. Tamasic things bring more dullness. Rajasic things bring more activities, sattvic is more light and more freedom. Like if you take apple pie, it is good for health and it gives you pleasure but if you go into drugs, it just entraps you and seems to be giving you pleasure to begin with but gives you only pain, only suffering so it is hard to get out of it. So that’s like a tamasic thing. So satvic, rajasic, tamasic there are three grades and the whole creation is made of these trigunas, three natures. Certain food you take makes you more dull, certain food makes you agitated, like this all activities, everything is from this three different gunas. And there are some specialties about this, all those details are there, the creation is made up of so many details. Says –
drasta-drsi-matrah suddho-pi-pratyaya-anupasyah
The self though it is ever pure, untainted, is just a witness, but when it becomes one with the Buddhi, the intellect, then he gets colored. He appears as though he is colored. Like somebody who is stuck in their intellect, they just stick to their thoughts and ideas as though it is their own and they suffer a lot. The self is the center of the whole creation.
The next sutra says –
tad-artha eva drsyasya-atma
Though this world does not exist for the one who is realized, enlightened, like the way it exist for one who is not enlightened. The world continues to exist with its opposites. For one who is awakened in knowledge, there is no more suffering. For you the world appears to be completely different, for you every inch of this creation is filled with bliss or part of the self. But for the others it does exist as they see it. So though you have realized not seeing the world as separate, a part of your self, it doesn’t exist for you, but for some others it does exist. It’s like you have come out of the aeroplane, or come out of the bus. For you, your journey is over but the aeroplane keeps moving or bus keeps moving. The bus still goes because it takes somebody else. But for you the journey is over but just because your journey is over, the bus does not stop. The bus continues. Is that clear?
krta-artam prati nastam-api-anastam tadanya-sadha ranatvat
sva-svami saktyok sva-rupa upalabdi hetuh samyoga
There is a power of nature. Like your body is made up of three gunas, sattva, rajas and tamas. And these tri gunas act accordingly, accordingly the thoughts come, accordingly your behavioral patterns, many things happen, it attracts accordingly the events, situations, circumstances around you. If tamasic guna is dominant, it creates more dullness, sleep, lethargy. If rajasic guna is dominanting, you may be in a different atmosphere, but your mind is restless, full of desires, anguish, it gallops on that horse. If the mind is dominated by sattva, then the mind is very alert, sharp, joyful, enthusiastic all these qualities come up. When these tri gunas act in your body according to their nature, time, place, whatever many reasons, identify yourself as this, this, oh! “I am this”, “I am this”, “I am a dull person, I am a lethargic person”, this is ignorance. Are you getting what I said? Observing the tendencies that come up in you and not think you are those tendencies. Guna-vrtti virodhac-ca. This guna, the nature, it will work with its nature.
There is another story. There was a very great monk who lived in Himalayas. He had free access anywhere he goes because people loved him and welcomed him. And this monk used to go to the palace, king’s palace and have his lunch there everyday. You have heard this story? He used to go to have lunch and the queen would serve him with golden plate and all that and then walked away. It was a routine. Once, what happen is after his meal he just grasped a silver glass there and a golden spoon, took it with him and went, didn’t even tell anyone, I am taking this, I want it or anything. Now, people in the palace noticed this, the queen noticed. He would never take anything in the past without telling anyone. He just put them in his bag and left. And three days later, he brought back the cup and spoon and left there. This was more puzzling. Before they thought, ok! May be he needed them, he just took them. Now he came back and put it back. It is again more puzzling. Then the king called all the wise people and put an enquiry why this happened? Why did he take it and why did he bring it back? And then they found, the wise people, pundits and all those people said, ok! Find out what did you feed him the previous day or 2 days back. So they found out all the things. Then they found out that they fed him with the food which they confiscated from some robbers, from dacoits; because few dacoits were arrested a couple of days ago, and they confiscated lot of grains and food stuff everything from them and that was made, cooked and served to the saint and that made him to rob things away. In ancient days, people used to look into those things that if somebody does things which are very unusual, then they go into the root cause of it. Why? Instead of accusing this man, this monk has started stealing, what made the monk steal the food? Who cooked the food? What was there in the food and what happened? They went into the details and found out the root cause- this, this, that is why it happened.
tasya hetur-avidya
If you think these vrtti are yours, that is ignorance. And what is the way to come out of the ignorance is the definite understanding, definite knowledge in the mind that mind body is undergoing change all the time. The world is undergoing changes all the time. The entire universe is in the form of fluid, in a state of fluidity and it is all full of changes and it is all going on its own according to its nature. This definite knowledge, that I am not the body, I am the self, the space, I am the imperishable, untouched, untainted by the prakriti, by this world around me, this body is all hollow and empty and every particle in this body is changing, and changing, and changing, and changing. The mind is changing, and changing, and changing. This definite knowledge is the way out of the cycle, hmm…
Jai Jai Radha Ramana Hari Bol…
Jai Jai Radha Ramana Hari Bol…
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