Acharya Prashant: Laxman is asking a question, he is saying that he has undergone two major surgeries and accidents – he says I understand that I’m identified with the body and it is the reason for my suffering. I’ve read many books, scriptures and listened to masters’ teachings that tell me that I am that not the body, yet I do not know how to come out of this pattern. Kindly guide me.
Laxman, you’re bearing physical pain. Keep bearing it. You cannot avoid it. Stop resisting the pain. Bear it gracefully. Live beautifully in pain and then you’ll not suffer. When you shout about, throw your hands about, stamp your feet, complain like a petulant child, that’s when suffering is.
You were born a human being. You’ve come to a certain age. You’ve had accidents, you’ve surgeries and now you’ve pain.
What else do you expect?
You were not born a human being to live painlessly. To be born is to be born in pain.
Do you know how much pain your mother went through when you were born?
What do you mean by complaining against pain?
