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th rouse a feeling of love and piety in others (9
commandment) ”.
On the path of spirituality, the suffering a person undergoes is because he would like to live at a higher plane of consciousness but is not doing so, the cause being a slave of wishes. Example, if he speaks the truth he might lose monetarily or otherwise but if he does not he will not be living a higher value. But for a person who is sure of the goal, there is no conflict, there may be losses which can be seen by all and sundry but he does not lose anything. Such a person does not suffer but may have to go through afflictions.
The life stories of the masters of our system are examples for us to learn from. When a person is not able to live the 5th and the 7th commandments, he suffers, because of nto taking miseries as divine blessings for our own good and for not taking wrongs done by others as heavenly gifts, which in turn do not allow him to follow the 9th commandment.
Sufferings help us in knowing the root cause of our not being able to live the right morals and proper behaviour.
When events do not happen to our liking we say that we are suffering. When events happen to our liking we call it as a pleasure and enjoy. In both the cases we are away from the thought of divinity. For a person on the spiritual path, any thought other than that of the divine becomes a cause for misery. In all the cases it is attachment that is the cause of suffering. The attachment is to anything and everything other than the divine. All that is born of attachment is misery. Pain and pleasure both contribute to miseries. (SS-477)
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