The Pain Shaft Invites Painful Incidents to Your Life🔗

A very beautiful analogy by Ramana Maharishi: the dog will try to keep on biting the dry bone. As it keeps on biting, the bone will poke into its mouth. From its own mouth, the blood will come out, but the dog will think that the blood is coming from the bone and drink that blood, enjoy that blood.

Exactly the same thing happens in you when you swallow violence, when you eat violence, when you are digesting violence. Save yourself from violence. Understand, it is not just the physical violence, even the psychological violence is constantly getting added into the society, into our system from too many sources. If violence excites you, you will be waiting for that kind of incident in your life.

If pain excites you, if you believe life is a pain shaft, you will be waiting for that kind of incident in your life and it will strengthen your belief.

Understand, this is an important truth. The depression or low mood which you experienced 10 years ago, the depression or low mood which you experienced 9 years ago, the depression which you experienced 8 years ago, the depression which you experienced 1 year ago, are all independent experiences that happened in your life.

Ten years ago, you would have been in depression because you don't have a son. Four years ago, you may have been in depression because you have a son! They are independent incidents causing independent experiences. But in the inner space, for the sake of convenience, you archive all the sufferings in one file for easy remembrance and easy reference. When you archive them all in one file, by and by, you connect all these depressions and experiences and come to an idea, 'My life in the last ten years was depression.' No! All ten different depression experiences happened in different ways, for different reasons, at different times. But when you connect all of them and see, you come to an idea, 'For the last ten years, I have been in depression.'

The moment you come to an idea, 'I was in depression for the last nine years', now you create an enemy who does not exist. Now you start fighting with him, 'I have to come out of depression. What to do?' The moment you create the shaft that for the last nine years, you were in depression, now you know for sure, that for the next nine years you are going to be in depression.

You will say, 'Yes, for the last nine years I was in depression, then naturally, tomorrow morning I am going to be in depression. How can I suddenly come out? How is it going to happen? I am going to be in depression.' This is a passive agreement with your enemy.

Understand, first thing, you create an enemy who does not exist.

Second thing, you already made a passive agreement with your enemy.

Then how do you think you will not attract depression? You created the enemy who does not exist and already created passive agreement with him. Then, naturally, you will say, 'No, no, Swamiji, I am in depression, please do something.' My presence cannot help, only your presence can help you. Nothing else can be done.