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Aptavani-6
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Where is the Pain in this Life for You?
There is no pain (dukh) or misery in your worldly life.
Pain and misery are endured by patients in the hospitals when
they have to sleep with their legs suspended. Pain and misery
are in the severely burned patients. What pain (dukh) do you
have that you complain unnecessarily? You deserve to be thrown
in jail for six months! When you call good things bad, what will
you call ‘bad’? In the hospitals, where there is pain and misery,
call that pain and misery, but why do you claim pain where there
is none? In my whole life, I have never said that I have pain and
misery (dukh). How can you say that? Are you a fool to speak
this way? Pain worth two pennies, four pennies, eight pennies,
twelve pennies; can it all be called the same?
People sick in the hospitals have true pain, not you! People
have their legs in traction; people are suffering from burns; go
and see them. Then you will realize that your pain is nothing.
People have no awareness of how wonderful a place nature has
given them to live in. They criticize good things as well as those
which are not so good. Complaining and criticizing is their business.
How can you call this humanity? Should there not be some kind
of a limit as to what one can regard as difficulty? ‘Today I did
not have an appetite so I could not eat; today I have this difficulty.’
What kind of madness is this?
When my hip was fractured and it was suspended with
weights, some people said, ‘Why does God have to give you
this kind of pain and misery? For sure, now there is no God!’
Hey, you! Where has God hurt me? It seems that way to