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“Pain in the touch of our Mother”*

Pain is the touch of our Mother teaching us how to bear and grow in rapture. She has
three stages of her schooling, endurance first, next equality of soul, last ecstasy.

As far as moral things are concerned, this is absolutely obvious, it is indisputable — all
moral suffering moulds your character and leads you straight to ecstasy, when you know
how to take it. But when it comes to the body...

It is true that doctors have said that if one can teach the body to bear pain, it becomes more
and more resilient and less easily disrupted — this is a concrete result. In the case of people
who know how to avoid getting completely upset as soon as they have a pain somewhere,
who are able to bear it quietly, to keep their balance, it seems that the body’s capacity to
bear the disorder without going to pieces increases. This is a great achievement. I have
asked myself this question from the purely practical, external standpoint and it seems
to be like this. Inwardly, I have been told this many times — told and shown by small
experiences — that the body can bear much more than we think, if no fear or anxiety is
added to the pain. If we eliminate the mental factor, the body, left to itself, has neither fear
nor apprehension nor anxiety about what is going to happen — no anguish — and it can
bear a great deal.

The second step is when the body has decided to bear it — you see, it takes the decision
to bear it: immediately, the acuteness, what is acute in the pain disappears. I am speaking
absolutely materially.

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