Do physical limitations have to cause emotional suffering?

 

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

Unconscious pain an obstacle to effective nididhyasana

 

Basically, we are scared to feel uncomfortable feelings like fear, anger, grief, hurt, guilt, shame etc. So they stay in the unconscious and get triggered and come out in present day situations. Not only that, also based on some uncomfortable experiences certain  limiting conclusions were formed – and they too remain in the unconscious and govern our lives.

Purifying the inner instrument, the mind involves not only becoming aware of the uncomfortable emotions that are stored in the unconscious, it involves letting them go, without clinging onto them....without clinging onto the storyline attached to them. We also need to become aware of the limiting beliefs and let them go too...without clinging onto them. 

Healing emotional pain thus involves both becoming aware and letting go. 

Becoming aware of the feelings lurking in the unconscious needs lot of Grace in form of a safe environment ...because we are scared to face them and allow ourselves to feel them, without clinging to the story line, without acting on them. Letting go is possible only when we have forgiven -others and ourselves.

Nididhyasana can be effective only after getting past the kashaya. Usually in attempting nididhyasana, if heavy unconscious is there, one knocks against kashaya, and can’t proceed ahead ...it is too scary and painful. Or the mind finds a way of dodging/denying the kashaya and stays in just words. 

So learning to process the kashaya in the form of traumatic memories, feelings and getting past the limiting beliefs is very important to be able to successfully sit for nididhyasana.

Managing Anxiety With EFT

 https://youtu.be/4WOJqKzalBA

Upasana - smiling to Ishvara in the heart centre

 This is a very relaxing and uplifting prayer meditation, in which you keep smiling to Ishta Devata, in the altar of your heart centre, and pray for antahkarana shuddhi. It fosters a deep sense of connect with Ishvara, at an emotional level.  It is adapted from Irmansyah Effendi's Open Heart Meditation.

https://youtu.be/IafAi7Ris-g

Om Tat Sat

Unhelpful Thinking Styles rob us of samatvam

 

Bird's eye view of what it takes to have samatvam

 

Meditation - Citsvarupoham