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remains the seer and knower of the experience of pleasure and
pain. Whenever someone insults or defames you, You have to
tell this entity (vedak) within, “This is happening because of your
pending karmic account.” The real You (the Self) are the seer
and the knower and are in eternal bliss and so You have to live
as a neighbor with the non-self within. These are all temporary
adjustments. When a person has a toothache, why does he not
worry that it will hurt him forever? There is a time for everything.
The pain will stop when the time is right. No circumstance will
last longer than forty-eight minutes; that is the order and
regularity (niyam) of this universe.
There is no happiness in any situation (avastha). Situations
and circumstances are constantly changing. If there is happiness
in the park, you still have to come home. Instead, it is better that
you remain in the location of misery and pleasure will arise. A
person who walks in the scorching heat under the sun is bound
to find pleasure even under the sparse foliage of the acacia tree.
If a person does not appreciate the shade of an acacia tree, just
make him walk under the sun for a few hours, and then he will.
Happiness is the end result of all clash filled activities of the
world. After an exhausting day’s work, one feels pleasure in
merely sitting under a fan and leisurely drinking tea! On the other
hand, the boss who spends his entire day in the comforts of his
own home does not appreciate the fan or a cup of tea. All
worldly pleasure is the reward of fatigue, mental or physical.
Eternal bliss; elemental bliss (sanatan sookha, tattvik sookha)
is such that it remains for ever.
There are situations where a wife hurts her husband and
where a husband hurts his wife. Now why do they suffer pain?
It is because they inflict relatively lesser pain than necessary.
Now if they were to inflict more pain than necessary, they get
used to it, accepts it and along with this acceptance, there is a
relative sense of relief and happiness. The knowledge (relative
gnan) at the end of such prolonged pain, tells them is that this