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it did not touch your body.” It is considered suffering, when it
touches the body.
If your wife is hurting, the pain is touching her body not
yours. So why should you take her pain on to your own mind?
You should take it in your Gnan.
‘We’ always keep everything separate. If there is a loss
in the business, ‘we’ say that the business incurred a loss. ‘We’
are not the owner of profit and loss, so why should ‘we’ take
it upon our head? Profit and loss do not affect ‘us’. If the
business incurs a loss and when the tax officer comes, ‘we’ will
tell the business, “Dear business, if you have the money to pay
off your obligation, do so; you will have to pay your debt.”
If you tell me you have an earache, ‘we’ will listen to you.
‘We’ will also listen to you if you complain about a toothache
or even if you say you are hungry. All these are accepted as
pain. But if you complain there is no butter and jam on the toast,
then ‘we’ will not listen. If you feed this body a little khichadee,
it will not complain. Thereafter, whatever meditation (dhyan) you
want to indulge in, adverse meditation (durdhyan) or otherwise,
it’s entirely your choice.
People carry an unnecessary burden of pain over their
heads. If the kadhee (soup) spills over, the sheth (‘boss’) shouts,
“What lousy karma that you had to spill the kadhee!” and invites
suffering. He does the same in his business; he walks around
carrying a heavy load on his shoulders of this imagined suffering.
There are ‘pains and sufferings’ of business and there are ‘pains
and sufferings’ of the society, but they are not true pain and
suffering. ‘We’ leave the pain and suffering of the business with
the business and the pain and suffering of the society with the
society. If someone cuts your hair off, that is not suffering; but
it is if someone cuts your ear off. Nevertheless, if that happens
to someone and he comes to our satsang, he will forget that
pain; he will forget the pain of his ear.