Do not be discouraged when sorrows, difficulties and tribulations
manifest in the daily battle of life.
Do not murmur.
Do not grumble.
Learn to be wise.
Mysterious are His ways.
Understand Him.
The pain you get is His blessing in disguise.
Pain is the best teacher in this world.
Pain corrects, educates and disciplines the soul. It infuses mercy in the heart. It develops power of endurance and patience. It develops will power. Pain makes the proud person humble. It purifies the heart. Just as the iron is shaped in the anvil by beating, so also, a human’s character is moulded by blows, knocks and pain- emotionally and physically.
Just as impure gold turns out to be pure by melting it in the crucible several times, so also, every human becomes pure by being burnt in the furnace of pain.
It is a chill of destitution that turns the mind of any human towards God. Knocks and blows of a severe type wean the mind of any person, from sensual objects and turn it in the path of spirituality. It’s pain and poverty, evil and misery that mould the character of any person… more than pleasure and wealth. Censure and blows are better teachers than praise and honour. Pain is a better teacher than pleasure.
Poverty has its own advantages. Poverty is a better teacher than wealth.
If you can develop the power of endurance; if you can train yourself to rejoice in suffering; if you think that everything is done by God for one’s own betterment and uplift; if you welcome pain as a messenger of God to make you remember Him and to infuse more mercy and power of endurance, then you will enjoy real bliss even amidst suffering. Pain will not be pain. Suffering will not be suffering.
Then there will be no necessity for a selfish worldly struggle for accumulating wealth. Greed and turmoil will vanish. You will rest in peace. You will rejoice within.
All pains are not equally felt.
There is no pain when you are asleep.
It is only when the mind is connected with the body that pains arise.
It is the identification with the mind and body,
Abhimana owing to Avidya, that causes pain.
-Swami Sivananda
Pain is not the philosophy of the Stoics. This is not the teaching of the pessimists. This is wonderful optimism that goads you on to realize the deep, abiding, eternal joy and unruffled peace of the higher Self within.
“I am not your enemy, I am your friend,
I am a messenger from God, I am an angel from heaven
To teach you wisdom, to instill in your heart,
Mercy and dispassion, to turn your mind towards God,
To destroy your intense clinging, to things earthly and mundane,
That are perishable and illusory; I am your guide and silent teacher,
I AM PAIN – the best thing in this world.”