The man and the frogs
The man in the story
represents ‘us’; each one of us! The house he buys represents the ‘body’ we
house in! We take to this body – our residence in
search and with desire to experience happiness and joys of the materialistic
kind.
But are we happy as we
‘reside’ in this body of ours? Everyone’s search is towards and for happiness,
peace and contentment only. Each of us defines and assumes his peace, happiness
and contentment in the various things of the world. Whatever we do or don’t is
to be happy, content or peaceful. Whether it is eating right, living right,
earning, marriage, children, education, achievements, charity, good deeds – in
short everything – is towards this end only.
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| Cause of suffering |
Why! A person who lies,
steals, cheats, hurts others etc. also does it for his happiness and
satisfaction! He thinks his acts will give him all this! And yet, in spite of
running in all directions, he is sad, restless and agitated! Why? Because he is
searching for the ‘right things’ in the ‘wrong places’. Happiness, peace and
satisfaction are internal possessions. They can’t be found in external world.
And yet we go around doing this, janma after janma. The reason – the two frogs in
the pond!
The pond represents our ‘manas’ (seat of emotions and attitudes). One frog called ‘fear’ and another called ‘ignorance’ create all the sound during the night. The night here is symbolic of our state of mind, namely, darkness and lack of light (knowledge).
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Fear and ignorance are
the only ‘two sins’ – the original sins or flaws of human birth. These two give
rise to all the negativities of the world, namely, jealousy, anger, pain,
suffering, competition, envy, selfishness, greed, stupidity and what not!
Out of ‘fear’ for our
near and dear, we condition them to certain behaviour, way of living and life
choices. When they don’t adhere to our expressions of the so-called love in the
form of conditions and expectations, we get depressed, sad, angry, worried,
tensed and what not! And we think ‘our loved ones’ are responsible for our pain
and suffering.
Contd........
Related post : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=ignorance
Questions addressed :
- What is the basis of our pain and suffering?
- How to be happy all the time?
- What is it removing which we can be happy and blissful all the time?
- Removing what can be have energies to experience life to the fullest?
- Instead of dealing with problems and addressing them one after the other, remove the cause of the problem itself.
- When we try to work on making things and situations right in life, we are only dealing with it topically. We are doing plastic surgery to the problem. We are not addressing the issue the right way.
- Remove the cause of pain and suffering in our life and the situations and events wouldn't bother us so much. The life becomes a play. In play we lose some and win some.
- Same way we'll experience life too! We realize we face some situations and people we win over and are happy about and some we lose to and they cause harm or trouble in our lives. But either way since we are playing we enjoy the game anyhow.
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1 comment:
Thank you mamm.
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