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Namah Privilege of Pain

law, Satyavan, will meet his demise within black secretly consists of white. Black cannot
a year of marriage, she abandons her yogic exist if there is no white in it. The Inconscience
detachment and, in a moment of human cannot exist without consciousness existing
vulnerability, queries the nature of pain. in it somewhere.
The human mortal mother’s heart takes
over. The mother’s lamentation mirrors a Now, if the Divine Consciousness, involved
universal human sentiment, challenging the in matter and life, has to break through
divine order and seeking to comprehend the and come out of Inconscience, this will be a
purpose behind suffering — questioning the painful process. But it is a pain of a different
inevitability of pain in earthly existence. The sort. Like Narad says:
Queen asks Narad:
“Pain ploughed the first hard ground of the
“Is it thy God who made this cruel law?” p. 438 world-drowse.
“Its payment of the tax of Time and Fate?” p. 439 By pain a spirit started from the clod,
By pain Life stirred in the subliminal deep.” p. 443
Let’s see how he responds.
When a flower has to grow in a desert, it has
Pain‘s Origin: The Firstborn of the Inconscient to grow against all odds. When a butterfly has
to come through a caterpillar, it has to break
“Pain was the first-born of the Inconscience” p. 443 through the shackles. The breaking-through
from unconsciousness is a painful process.
Consciousness is all-blissful and the Inconscient
is full of pain and suffering. But how did the When a pearl is formed in an oyster, it is
Inconscient come into being? because of a grain of irritation that enters
inside the oyster and acts as a transformative
Let us go back to the beginning of all life, agent. Without the grain of irritation, the
when Light plunged into darkness. oyster remains unchanged, mirroring the
inertia in human nature, resistant to growth.
When the All-Encompassing Consciousness,
the Divine, aspired to create, it wondered In progress lies true joy. Thus, pain of progress
— when all is Me and I am All, how could comes first, only then joy could be.
I create something that I am not? Thus, the
only way It could create was by creating its “But pain came first, then only joy could be.” p. 443
opposite — the Inconscience of Matter —
dark, gross and ignorant, the opposite of the When one views progress and evolution
Pure Consciousness — luminous, subtle and as the aim of life, to enable the Divine to
all-knowing. manifest as True, Good and Beauty upon
Earth, pain suddenly feels like a joyful rapture
The twist in the story is — the opposite of for growth! Like the way a sportsperson feels
anything cannot exist without the thing itself about his hard training after winning a match!
somewhere being involved in it. This means Like it was all worth it!

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