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bad. At all times, it is the first option which is correct and for which nature grants you a magnanimous reward. This is because the pain giver is only a jailer. The Jailer may make you do hard labour, he may starve you or if the court has so ordered, he may even hang you. It is not he who is wicked, it is the prisoner's wrong-doing which is wicked and for which he has to suffer. This is applicable universally.
It is worth remembering and repeating that, "It is my own karmas which are sinful." This is the only remedy to get our punishment mitigated and to receive a reward. During the twelve and a half years of Lord Mahavir's arduous effort for the attainment of self-realisation, he had to bear excessive hardships but the Lord never regarded the persons inflicting adversities on him as evil persons - be it Sangam, Shoolpani, Vyantari Devi Katpootna or the cowherd. That is why he could safeguard himself from feeling any aversion or hatred towards them. He understood his own karmas were to blame. He was being punished for his own crimes. The above names were only jailers. He knew his punishment would be reduced only if he bore it with equanimity. Such thoughts fortify one's forbearance. A soul is then able to bear even terrible shocks with composure for which nature bestows on it glorious rewards.
Gold which gets heated in the fire gets the reward of pureness and luster. An unbroken stone which gets carved with a chisel gets the reward of becoming the idol of a
Vyantar dev = a peripatetic celestial
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