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there is no cause for anxieties. Granted that a person with a
toothache is suffering, but otherwise there is no suffering and yet
people have become so restless.
Anything for which there is a solution or a cure can be
called suffering. In fact, it can only be called pain or suffering if
there is a solution for it. If there is no solution, then it is not
considered suffering. When there is pain, do we not look for
solutions and cures? If a person loses a leg in a war, that leg is
not going to come back and so it cannot be called suffering
(dookha), but if he has an abscess on the face, that is suffering
because it is possible to cure it; there is a solution for it.
A person may say, “I am happy in all respects but I just
have this itching eczema on my leg.” Arey! How can you call this
pain? When it itches the hand is handy to automatically scratch
the itch, is it not?
Questioner : But, Dada our financial situation has
changed for the worse, what about that?
Dadashri : That will keep changing. Does night not
follow day? Today you may not have a job but tomorrow you
may have a new job. Both situations change. There are many
times when one has no financial problems. But greed has taken
hold of him. All you have to be concerned with is whether there
is enough money in the home to buy some vegetables for
tomorrow, nothing more. Now, tell me do you have such
suffering?
Questioner : No!
Dadashri : Then how can you call that suffering? One
keeps crying about suffering when no suffering exists. This
needless complaining leads to restlessness and heart attacks.
That which cannot be treated is not called suffering. One must
do whatever is necessary to decrease the suffering. But, when
no treatment exists, it is not called suffering.