From Pain to Powerlessness: A Soul's Journey to Recognizing a Supreme Authority, God
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From Pain to Powerlessness: A Soul's Journey to Recognizing a Supreme Authority, God
A ubiquitous and instinctive response to encountering pain is questioning why it is happening to us. This inquiry stems from a profound desire to eliminate suffering. Pain is an inherent aspect of life, commencing at birth when an individual transitions from the womb's comfort to the physical world's challenges, prompting a lifelong quest for relief. The trifecta of physical, mental, and material pain fuels an unrelenting pursuit for a lasting solution. We must comprehend how this tripartite suffering drives the search for a permanent remedy, often leading to introspection about the source of our distress.
This explanation describes the threefold torment that people face during their lifetime. Adhibhoutika involves hardships caused by other worldly beings, including malaria contracted from mosquito bites or ferocious dog attacks. Also, trusted individuals may betray one's trust at critical instances, highlighting the intricacies of human suffering. Adhidaivika refers to forms of hardship that defy logical explanation. Natural disasters like floods and hurricanes inflict immense suffering on millions worldwide annually. Receiving a cancer diagnosis with a limited prognosis elicits stress and anguish, exemplifying misery stemming from uncontrollable circumstances. These afflictions originate from Demigods. Adhyatmika encompasses the anguish resulting from maladaptive mental and bodily functions. Insufficient positive thinking can culminate in overwhelming failures and incapacities, yielding profound mental distress. Typically, individuals lack profound spiritual objectives, such as attaining serenity, which fosters insufficient faith, tolerance and psychological endurance. This self-imposed misery arises from flawed cognitive processes. Moreover, inadequate intellectual faculties can hinder one's capacity to evaluate life circumstances, resulting in forfeited benefits.
Although life is intended to be a joyful experience, our attachments, preferences, and aversions transform it into sorrow and pain. Through experience and maturity, one learns to subordinate mental and physical suffering, the monotony of life, to the background of our thoughts under the guise of managing them, but they persist indefinitely until a minor trigger brings them back to the forefront. One acknowledges that it is impossible to permanently eliminate these life miseries or halt the emergence of new ones. The remedies available in this world are insufficient and fleeting, providing temporary relief from specific ailments but failing to guarantee their complete non-recurrence. Medications and drugs can offer brief respite, but they also carry the risk of addiction.
This necessitates a perpetual solution to alleviate these pains. Upon birth, one's connection to God is severed by material attachments formed through worldly interaction. As growth occurs, intensifying entanglements with material attachments ensue, hindering realization of divinity, our authentic origin and home. Experience of several lifetimes prompt a soul to recognize its powerlessness and the existence of a Supreme authority, God, sparking a quest for connection, achieved by few. Sriman Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's Gaudiya Sampradaya enables spiritual understanding through good association of pure devotees of Lord Krishna, facilitating surrender and devotion to Lord Sri Krishna. Pure love for God is the sole enduring solution to human misery, as scientific, economic, political and philosophical progress are fleeting. Once awakened, love for God remains indestructible, mirroring the soul's immortality and the lasting consciousness attained through divine love.
A ubiquitous and instinctive response to encountering pain is questioning why it is happening to us. This inquiry stems from a profound desire to eliminate suffering. Pain is an inherent aspect of life, commencing at birth when an individual transitions from the womb's comfort to the physical world's challenges, prompting a lifelong quest for relief. The trifecta of physical, mental, and material pain fuels an unrelenting pursuit for a lasting solution. We must comprehend how this tripartite suffering drives the search for a permanent remedy, often leading to introspection about the source of our distress.
This explanation describes the threefold torment that people face during their lifetime. Adhibhoutika involves hardships caused by other worldly beings, including malaria contracted from mosquito bites or ferocious dog attacks. Also, trusted individuals may betray one's trust at critical instances, highlighting the intricacies of human suffering. Adhidaivika refers to forms of hardship that defy logical explanation. Natural disasters like floods and hurricanes inflict immense suffering on millions worldwide annually. Receiving a cancer diagnosis with a limited prognosis elicits stress and anguish, exemplifying misery stemming from uncontrollable circumstances. These afflictions originate from Demigods. Adhyatmika encompasses the anguish resulting from maladaptive mental and bodily functions. Insufficient positive thinking can culminate in overwhelming failures and incapacities, yielding profound mental distress. Typically, individuals lack profound spiritual objectives, such as attaining serenity, which fosters insufficient faith, tolerance and psychological endurance. This self-imposed misery arises from flawed cognitive processes. Moreover, inadequate intellectual faculties can hinder one's capacity to evaluate life circumstances, resulting in forfeited benefits.
Although life is intended to be a joyful experience, our attachments, preferences, and aversions transform it into sorrow and pain. Through experience and maturity, one learns to subordinate mental and physical suffering, the monotony of life, to the background of our thoughts under the guise of managing them, but they persist indefinitely until a minor trigger brings them back to the forefront. One acknowledges that it is impossible to permanently eliminate these life miseries or halt the emergence of new ones. The remedies available in this world are insufficient and fleeting, providing temporary relief from specific ailments but failing to guarantee their complete non-recurrence. Medications and drugs can offer brief respite, but they also carry the risk of addiction.
This necessitates a perpetual solution to alleviate these pains. Upon birth, one's connection to God is severed by material attachments formed through worldly interaction. As growth occurs, intensifying entanglements with material attachments ensue, hindering realization of divinity, our authentic origin and home. Experience of several lifetimes prompt a soul to recognize its powerlessness and the existence of a Supreme authority, God, sparking a quest for connection, achieved by few. Sriman Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's Gaudiya Sampradaya enables spiritual understanding through good association of pure devotees of Lord Krishna, facilitating surrender and devotion to Lord Sri Krishna. Pure love for God is the sole enduring solution to human misery, as scientific, economic, political and philosophical progress are fleeting. Once awakened, love for God remains indestructible, mirroring the soul's immortality and the lasting consciousness attained through divine love.
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First International Conference on a Dialogue between Vedanta and Science on the Origin of Life and Evolution
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November 23—24, 2024
Aksharaa School, Kathmandu, Nepal
First International Conference: Dialogue between Vedanta & Science
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