Pain - Lessons 1 to 2

Patanjali gives a powerful idea and technique. To conquer the pain. Patanjali On Pain

Assessment:

15th sutra, 2nd chapter

Parinaama Tapa samskara dukhaihi guna vrutti virodhath cha dukham eva sarvam vivekinaha to the discriminating viveki,naha all is as it where is painful because everything brings pain either as consequence or of anticipation of laws of happiness or of fresh craving arising out of happiness and also because of gunas contradicting one another

Patanjali says everything is painful for an intelligent person. Why? If you have a painful especially, fear it will come again, so it is pain. Even if you have a pleasure especially, fear that you may lose it, or craving you may need it again & again creates pain. Apart from that, all these 3 gunas are constantly fighting. Patanjali almost gives you a powerful method of stopping your mind. He is not saying get depressed. No. All Patanjali is saying is stop the hope.

Be hopeless the only way to hope. Be hopeless that is the ultimate that can happen in you. Always all hopes lead u to hopelessness. Because by nature, hope leads you to hopelessness. No other way.

Everything brings pain – Vivekananda says as consequence or anticipation of loss of happiness. Pain is pain. Even if you have joy, fear of losing or craving to have it more & more it will bring pain. If you have pain, it is pain. If you have pleasure, either fear or craving is pain. If nothing happens also, these 3 gunas (attributes) sitting inside will be fighting with each other. That is also pain. Then what to do?.

Swamiji says: "the ultimate life is when you are just hopeless. Completely hopeless. Stay always in bottom, then nobody can push you!"

Do not cling to life because life is suffering. That is what Buddha means when he says life is suffering. The 1st step to start spiritual journey is be hopeless. Everything will create joy in you.

INTRODUCTION

Pain can be physical, mental or emotional. Physical pain is a basic necessity for the body. Just imagine, if we could feel no pain in our body we might accidentally hurt ourselves or start styling our faces, hands, and legs the way we style our hair today! Actually, pain is a letter of request, written by the body to the mind, saying, 'Please pay attention to me!' because attention is energy. When attention is given to a particular area, that attention becomes energy for that area. When the body communicates pain, it is actually asking for attention or energy, which willing help it heal. Mental or emotional pain is the you feeling that arises when you are faced with something you don't like.

Research shows that emotional pain can deeply disturb the physical body. For example, the psychological feelings that arise with sexual repression can result in lower back disorders, or the pain of shouldering too much responsibility can cause pain in the shoulders. Whether the pain is physical or emotional, an important thing you need to understand is that pain is always born from resistance to the present moment.

Goal :

Ask questions regarding the general topic of pain.

v Do you like to have pain?
v How will you feel when you have any pain?
v What is physical pain?
v What is emotional pain?
v Name different kinds of emotions?
v When do we experience emotional pain?
v Tell us about the incidents when all of you experienced physical pain?
v Tell us about the incidents when all of you experienced emotional or mental pain?

v How can we control pain?
v What happens if we do not feel any pain?
v Is physical pain a basic necessity?
v What are the consequences if we do not experience physical pain at all?
v Focus on the worst emotional pains; imagine their feelings (emotional pain)

Reiterate the topic of pain, the importance of pain, ways to overcome pain. Conclusion:

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