Suffering

One who has withdrawn all their senses into the Self, and who has not caused pain to any creature except as permitted by the scriptures, conducts themselves in this way throughout their life. They reach the World of Brahman after death and do not return.

I come to the palace of the creator. I am the glory of the brahmins, the glory of the kings, and the glory of the commoners. I wish to attain that glory. I am the glory of all glories. May I never go to the place of suffering.

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.

Now hear from Me the threefold nature of happiness, O best of the Bharatas — that in which one delights through practice, and through which one reaches the end of suffering.

Your enemies will say many unspeakable things, mocking your strength. What could be more painful than that?

Only when people shall roll up the sky like a hide — only then, without knowing God, will there be an end of suffering.

The hardship is greater for those whose minds cling to the Unmanifest, for the path of the Unmanifest is very difficult for embodied beings to attain.

The pleasures that are born of sensory contact are indeed wombs of sorrow. O son of Kunti, they have a beginning and an end — the wise one does not delight in them.

In this body battered by desire, anger, greed, fear, despair, envy, separation from what is cherished, union with what is unwanted, hunger, thirst, old age, death, disease, and sorrow — what is the worth of indulging sensory pleasures?

Know that as yoga — the severing of union with sorrow. That yoga must be practiced with determination and with a mind that does not despair.

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.

My yoke is easy and my burden is light

If someone truly lives in God's will, they find joy in all pain and simplicity in all complexity; even the torments of hell would be a joy to them.

If I am lifted up on the cross, I will draw all people to myself.

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.