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suffer. People roast in the fire pit of worldly suffering day and night. Where can they escape? Once they sit with the Gnani Purush, these flames will quell and they will attain the goal of the human life for sure. The worldly life is truly like a burning fire. Some suffer with superficial burns while others suffer the agony of severe burns. Can happiness even exist in this world? If there were happiness in this world, would the emperors of the past abandon their wives and empire in search for liberation? They were truly aggravated with the worldly life and that is why they abandoned everything and ran away.
Do Celestial beings have to suffer too?
The celestial beings do not have a childhood. They do not have to take birth through a mother’ s womb. They do not have to suffer the pain of infancy and childhood. They do not even have to go to the bathroom or the toilet. There is nothing in their life that will cause them to feel a sense of detachment and dispassion( vairagya). They are born as young adults and they die as young adults. So what causes them unhappiness and suffering? There is a lot of competitiveness and jealousy in the celestial world; this person is bigger than me. They do have attachment( raag) and abhorrence( dwesh) as a result of this. They suffer intensely because of this attachment and abhorrence and that is why they too have an intense desire to meet a Gnani Purush. But they are not likely to die prematurely. They have tremendous worldly pleasures and happiness but even then, they feel as if they are in a prison. They too have to suffer inner and outer turmoil.
Bliss of an oasis in the middle of the desert
Bliss is found only in liberation and for liberation it is not attachment and abhorrence( raag-dwesh) that need to be rid but rather the ignorance. Life is the fruit that offers no bliss. There is sweet juice in it but that juice is of pleasure and pain; not bliss. There is more pain than pleasure in the juice of life.