You didn't have anything special in the past. Had we had anything special in the past, then we wouldn't have come to the state of suffering we find ourselves in today. So, the past is not the solution. You have to realize how things are with you today. You have to look at your interactions with human beings today. You have to see how you relate to your body, to your friends, to your workplace—all these things. And from there, you—you develop an insight, and that insight offers, some freedom.
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Questioner: Hello, um, my question is, if the beginning and ending are, uh, not mine—when I was not involved in any of those—then why is this whole, business of existence, it's, uh... it contains suffering in it? And why is my nature, like you said, suffering? Which is... which I feel that it is. So what... what is the reason, I would say, or cause of my nature being of suffering?
Acharya Prashant: No, in Prakriti, the nature is not of suffering. The moment you say my nature, then there is suffering. Then there is suffering.
Rabindranath Tagore very beautifully said, "The butterfly lives not years, not months, but days, and still has time long enough." You can pull out the exact quote; it runs somewhat like this.
Suffering is because you have fanciful concepts; otherwise, there is just the flow of life. This is happening, that is happening. You do not take yourself as life in totality; you take yourself as an isolated segment with boundaries. I am only this much, I am only this much. You create yourself as a part of the whole, and then you want to consume the whole to become whole.
