The root cause of a person's suffering is their pride. Even if someone makes a sacrifice, they can still get caught up in their own pride. What is the point of such a sacrifice? It is pride, or ego, that should be sacrificed. That is where true happiness and bliss are found.
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Suffering
Across world spiritual traditions, suffering refers to experiences of hardship, pain, and distress. Many traditions converge on the idea that suffering can be a catalyst for spiritual growth and self-reflection. However, they diverge in their explanations of its causes and the paths to alleviating it.
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Now hear from me about the three kinds of happiness, best of the Bharatas — that in which one comes to delight through practice and reaches the end of suffering.
सुखं त्विदानीं त्रिविधं शृणु मे भरतर्षभ | अभ्यासाद्रमते यत्र दुःखान्तं च निगच्छति ||१८-३६||
Your enemies will speak many unspeakable words, mocking your ability. What could be more painful than that?
अवाच्यवादांश्च बहून्वदिष्यन्ति तवाहिताः | निन्दन्तस्तव सामर्थ्यं ततो दुःखतरं नु किम् ||२-३६||
Only when human beings can roll up space like a piece of leather will there be an end to sorrow apart from knowing God.
यदा चर्मवदाकाशं वेष्टयिष्यन्ति मानवाः । तदा देवमविज्ञाय दुःखस्यान्तो भविष्यति ॥ २०॥
Greater is the toil of those whose minds are set on the unmanifest, for the goal of the unmanifest is reached only with difficulty by embodied beings.
क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषामव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम् | अव्यक्ता हि गतिर्दुःखं देहवद्भिरवाप्यते ||१२-५||
For the pleasures born of contact with objects are only sources of suffering; they have a beginning and an end, Arjuna, and the wise person does not delight in them.
ये हि संस्पर्शजा भोगा दुःखयोनय एव ते | आद्यन्तवन्तः कौन्तेय न तेषु रमते बुधः ||५-२२||
'In this body, afflicted by desire, anger, greed, delusion, fear, despair, envy, separation from what is loved, union with what is not loved, hunger, thirst, old age, death, disease, grief, and the like—what is the good of the enjoyment of desires?'
कामक्रोधलोभभयविषादेर्ष्येष्टवियोगानिष्टसम्प्रयोगक्षु त्पिपासाजरामृत्युरोगशोकाद्यैरभिहतेऽस्मिञ्छरीरे किं कामोपभोगैः ॥ ३॥
let this be known as yoga, the severance of union with suffering. This yoga is to be practiced with determination and with a mind that does not despair.
तं विद्याद् दुःखसंयोगवियोगं योगसंज्ञितम् | स निश्चयेन योक्तव्यो योगोऽनिर्विण्णचेतसा ||६-२३||
The body is the boat that must be used to cross the river of life.
You should stick to your duty and gain the reward that comes from hard work and pain.
The person who possesses such a soul can never be defeated by sorrow or pain. They are as pure as the gods, high-minded, and wise, with no secrets hidden from them.
If he really abides in God’s will, all pain is to him a joy, all complication, simple: yea, even the pains of hell would be a joy to him.
If I be lifted up on the Cross, will draw all men unto Me.
Every being harvests what they have sown. They profit from their actions and suffer from them as well. This is the law of Karma, which is the result of our actions and the natural energy that drives us. It gives our existence, nature, character, and actions a meaning that is lacking in other theories of life.
Dharma is that which leads to the attainment of the highest good and the cessation of pain, known as Moksha.
Kunti Devi said, "Oh Lord Krishna, let me always remember you. Give me pain always, for I may forget you if I experience pleasure."
Raja Yoga is the royal path to freedom from suffering, focusing on the four key principles: suffering, its cause, liberation from suffering, and the methods to achieve it.
Worship God by serving humanity in their suffering
As a matter of fact all the objects created by God are meant for all human beings. It is man himself who is imposing limits on them because of his own selfishness and narrow-mindedness. That is why man is suffering.
'While we are still here we may know this; if not, there is great destruction. Those who know it become immortal; the rest go only to sorrow.'
इहैव सन्तोऽथ विद्मस्तद्वयं न चेदवेदिर्महती विनष्टिः । ये तद्विदुरमृतास्ते भवन्त्यथेतरे दुःखमेवापियन्ति ॥ १४॥