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Recieved: 2001/08/08 13:13
Subject: [K-list] Nisagardatta
From: Lobster
On 2001/08/08 13:13, Lobster posted thus to the K-list:
Nisagardatta:
Whatever may be the situation, if it is acceptable, it is pleasant. If it
it not acceptable, it is painful. What makes it acceptable is not
important; the cause may be physical, or psychological, or untraceable;
acceptance is the decisive factor. Obversely, suffering is due to
non-acceptance. Why [shouldn't pain be acceptable]? Did you ever try? Do
try and you will find in pain a joy which pleasure cannot yield, for the
simple reason that acceptance of pain takes you much deeper than pleasure
does. The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain,
non-resistance, courage and endurance - these open deep and perennial
sources of real happiness, true bliss. (277-8)
There is trouble only when you cling to something. When you hold on to
nothing, no trouble arises. The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining
of the greater. Give up all and you gain all. Then life becomes what it was
meant to be: pure radiation from an inexhaustible source. In that light the
world appears dimly like a dream. (257)
Pain is physical, suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no
suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels
you to suffer. Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a
sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life. As a sane life is
free of pain, so is a saintly life free from suffering. A saint does not
want things to be different from what they are; he knows that, considering
all factors, they are unavoidable. He is friendly with the inevitable and,
therefore, does not suffer. Pain he may know, but it does not shatter him.
If he can, he does the needful to restore the lost balance, or he lets
things take their course. (270)
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty.
Pain and pleasure are in the mind. Change your scale of values and all will
change. Pleasure and pain are mere disturbances of the senses; treat them
equally and there will be only bliss. And the world is what you make it; by
all means, make it happy. Only contentment can make you happy, desires
fulfilled breed more desires. Keeping away from all desires and contentment
in what comes by itself is a very fruitful state, a precondition to the
state of fullness. Don't distrust its apparent sterility and emptiness.
Believe me, it is the satisfaction of desires that breeds misery. Freedom
from desires is bliss. (249)
You must not indulge in forecasts and plans, born of memory and
anticipation. It is one of the pecularities of a gnani that he is not
concerned with future. Your concern with future is due to fear of pain and
desire for pleasure; to the gnani all is bliss: he is happy with whatever
comes. (285)
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