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The Lord had said for us to only accept bodily pain as
pain, all other pain is not real pain. Why do the animals not have
any other pain? It is because their mind is limited. If you take
them food, they will come running to you because they know
they will get something to eat. If you take a stick, they will run
away. That is all there is to their minds. Do they worry about
anything else besides that? The minds of these cows do not
wander and therefore they do not have problems or miseries of
the mind and yet their worldly life is just like ours. They are not
intelligent and yet their world goes on. So why would yours not
go on too? Your mind has higher revolutions than the cow, so
why don’t you take advantage of that? Why does this revolving
mind become a problem? Dismiss any thoughts of pain, or at
worst, do not accept them.
We have bodily pains just as these cows and buffalos
have but they do not have problems associated with pains of
speech. They do not have any problems when you swear at
them because their mind and their intellect are limited. These
‘extra’ pains in human beings should be dismissed. Do the cows
and buffalos have worries about getting their children married?
If you see a scorpion enter your home in the light, you will
continue to be scared. But if it enters in the dark and you do not
see it entering your home, then you will not be scared. You can
dim a full light (intellect) but you cannot make a dim light full. If
the life of cows and water buffalos goes on, would yours not do
the same? Even the life of those who have no awareness goes
on. The whole world goes on, so why don’t you let go?
What is considered suffering after ‘we’ give you Gnan? It
is that which touches the body and not the clothes. Some people
are bothered when someone touches their clothes. If you are on
your way to a wedding and someone spits on your clothes, you
will complain, “He spit on me!” so ‘we’ would say, “Yes, it is
true that he spit on you. But that is not your suffering, because