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an act of faith for us to hold that categorization leads to eventual control.
This very attempt has helped in the evolution of language and the evolving language has in turn accentuated and refined the very act of classification. The same language, that unique faculty of humans, the communication tool par excellence is useful in internal or ‘self’ to ‘self’ communication as much during introspection as it is in ‘self’ to ‘other’ communication. The point being made is we encapsulate all suffering which is mainly of the nature of feeling pain into a thought capsule called impression or samskar, the result of consolidation or compaction even in the literal sense due to brooding over the experience;- participation of the brain and heart as the Master would put it.
A proper understanding of suffering can come about only when we are able to view it from a higher level, that is distancing ourselves so to speak as a disinterested witness, from the mere rational and discursive mental plane. That is the level of vijnana or wisdom level as it happens in the case of the illumined souls, the Great Masters.
As Lord Buddha states on the awakening of the Bodhi or wisdom in Him, there is suffering in this phenomenal existence, there is its arising, there is a cause of suffering and there is a way for the removal of suffering (the Four Noble Truths). Our Great Master has made repeated references to the inevitability and the ubiquitousness of suffering and miseries in the lives of all embodied beings. He says none can escape it, even the great saints and the Avatars were subjected to it. There are many reasons for suffering, namely ill-health, poverty, pain, loss of near and dear ones. If the poor suffer due to lack of wealth the rich are worried at not being richer still. This is the routine course of Nature. While suffering is
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