There is poverty, sickness, physical pain ....all kinds of physical limitations. Do physical limitations have to cause emotional suffering?
We are conditioned to believe that physical limitations must cause emotional suffering. Does the discomfort and physical pain that is felt have to cause emotional suffering?
Emotional suffering is caused when there is identification with the physical discomfort as ‘I am the discomfort’ or ‘my discomfort or pain’. If there is clear assimilation of the fact revealed by Vedanta, that I is just pure consciousness, infinite, indestructible, unchanging, in whose ever-presence, different ever-changing energy states which appear and disappear, are illumined and recognized to be projections only ...then physical limitations and physical pain will not cause emotional suffering. गुणा गुणेषु वर्तन्ते इति मत्वा न सज्जते।
Before this kind of firm assimilation can happen a lot of emotional cleansing needs to take place. All the buried stuff in the unconscious needs to be aired, accepted, forgiven and let go off.
To understand Vedanta is not difficult. To own it up can be extremely difficult, if the stored emotional garbage is not compassionately processed and let go of.
Om Tat Sat
