The Beauty Of Pain..Do see..:)

Even while in school, one of my teachers once asked me whether there was anything in life that didn't have a purpose. All of 14 years old, I confidently answered that pain was something that we could have well done without. He poked the part of my leg which had turned blue and asked how I would pay attention to that part of the body, which needed healing at that point of time, if I didn't feel pain? I appreciated his point immediately, but only from the physical pain point of view. Over the years, there were several events in my life which also caused me to experience mental agony. At each point, even with varying intensity, I wondered why I needed to go through such pain. In hindsight, I have seen that the deeper the pain, the greater has been my learning, and I have been able to bounce back to even higher levels of awareness. Through all this, I wondered whether it was only me who learned through this method (possibly because I am stubborn), and whether pain was essential, or did everybody go through the same process.

If you believe in the theory of reincarnation, you will also accept that a person who experiences pain in one particular lifetime is able to understand a similar kind of pain another soul is going through in the present lifetime. We see such compassionate souls all around us and admire them, but without fully understanding how they can have such depth in feelings, why they are the way they are. I recently came across this beautiful passage from "The Fakir" which explained to me that Pain is also beautiful.

Pain is the greatest gift God could give his child, because it is pain that opens the door to compassion and love; and it is only compassion and love for all of creation that opens the doors of paradise and God consciousness. If you have been in pain, you understand and sympathise with the pain of others. If makes you more open to the peculiar behaviour and weakness of others, as when in pain, you too have misbehaved or thought of misbehaving or hurting others or in a moment of weakness done things you shouldn't have. So you become less judgmental. More open. Pain makes you closer to all beings and God Himself. Pain makes you gentler and more humane to the tears and sorrow of others; and also allows you to appreciate good times, good people and real companionship. Pain of body, mind or heart, means the land is fertile for God to begin cultivating on your soul. But if you let pain make you bitter, negative, mean, vindictive … Ah son, you have lost the greatest opportunity to walk in the shadow of God. But if you allow pain to harvest the good in you my child, then the kingdom of heaven is yours; not only when you exhale your last and leave your physical frame, but even when you live and with every breath you take while you live. The cross will remain, but your shoulders will get more strength. The whip will lash on your body but the balm of God will now allow pain to touch you. The kingdom of heaven is filled with wonders son; the greatest wonder of all, is to convert pain to God consciousness. So if this is heaven, what is hell? When the heart and soul want to be someplace else, but the body for whatever reason has to stay away, that's hell. One does not need to die to experience hell. Most often, hell is just a state of mind.

Source-https://karmictraveller.posterous.com/the-beauty-of-pain

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