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there is no cause for anxieties. Granted that a person with a toothache is suffering, but otherwise there is no suffering and yet people have become so restless.
Anything for which there is a solution or a cure can be called suffering. In fact, it can only be called pain or suffering if there is a solution for it. If there is no solution, then it is not considered suffering. When there is pain, do we not look for solutions and cures? If a person loses a leg in a war, that leg is not going to come back and so it cannot be called suffering (dookha), but if he has an abscess on the face, that is suffering because it is possible to cure it: there is a solution for it.
A person may say, "I am happy in all respects but I just have this itching eczema on my leg. "Arey! How can you call this pain? When it itches the hand is handy to automatically scratch the itch, is it not?
Questioner: But, Dada our financial situation has changed for the worse, what about that?
Dadashri : That will keep changing. Does night not follow day? Today you may not have a job but tomorrow you may have a new job. Both situations change. There are many times when one has no financial problems. But greed has taken hold of him. All you have to be concerned with is whether there is enough money in the home to buy some vegetables for tomorrow, nothing more. Now, tell me do you have such suffering?
Questioner : No!
Dadashri : Then how can you call that suffering? One keeps crying about suffering when no suffering exists. This needless complaining leads to restlessness and heart attacks.
That which cannot be treated is not called suffering. One must do whatever is necessary to decrease the suffering. But, when no treatment exists, it is not called suffering.
What is the current era of this time cycle like? In this era one is preoccupied with ways and means by which he can make money, how he can exploit and deprive others, how he can sell adulterated goods, how he can obtain sexual gratification from that which is not rightfully his. He can only look for something else if he can get a break from all these preoccupations, right? None of these have provided any meaningful happiness. Meaningful happiness can only arise if one pursues the 'main production' (the Self). The worldly life is a byproduct. One attains this body, worldly comforts, a wife, a home etc. as a result of good deeds in the past life. If it were possible to get these things through sheer hard work, then even a laborer should get them, but that is not the case. There is a misconception amongst people today and hence they have started 'factories' of by-production (money and pursuit of imagined pleasure). You should not start the business of by-production. Main production means to attain moksha from a Gnani Purush, and then the byproducts of worldly comforts will come as a bonus. Countless lives have been wasted through wrongful meditation (dhyan) for acquiring the byproducts. For once, attain moksha and all your problems will be solved.
Questioner : What happens when a person commits suicide?
Dadashri : A person may die by committing suicide but he will have to come back to pay off his debts and obligations As a human, one is bound to face difficulties, but does that mean one has to commit suicide? The consequences of committing suicide are extremely serious. The Lord has forbidden suicide because its consequences are very grave. One should not even think of committing suicide. Resolve to pay off whatever outstanding debts you may have, but do not even think of suicide.
Lord Ramchandraji faced tremendous pain and suffering.
