CHENNAI: Successful people all over the world believe in the ‘No Pain- No Gain’ philosophy. Hence he who wishes to prosper must endure the pain.
Each one of us have our own experiences of pain, but not many of us know that there is a vast difference between inner pain and physical (outer) pain, of which the latter can easily be treated with a variety of available medications.
What about the pain we feel within us? To understand it, we must first find the primary cause of it. Many of us may deny it as emerging from back of our mind, but in reality it’s the “Ego”, that’s the hidden culprit and the primary reason for our inner pain.
Underneath ego, we completely lose our identity and connection with the inner being. The only way to regain that lost identity and inner well-being is through self introspection, which very few of us venture to explore.
Another important factor that creates inner pain is ‘Discontentment’. Yes! It is subtle, but it does great psychological damage within us. We live in a competitive world, wherein we are constantly under some or the other kind of complexities like- “I need to wear a better watch than my colleague or I must have a bigger car than my neighbor etc...”
Even after buying things that we desire, we might feel better, but it lasts only so long. This is so because we would never be at peace with our inner self and the world around us, as long as we are discontented. So what is the solution? Can we create a new scenario?
Well, yes we can! The simple technique for this is to look within, instead of looking outside and discovering the treasure of inner happiness through regular practice of deep silence.
The more we come back to our original state of being, which is that of pure love and peace, the easier will it be for us to connect to the supreme source and draw powers of peace, love and truth to share it with others around us thereby bringing peace within self and the world. So let’s embark on this wonderful journey of discovering the new self, feeling very light and banish all mental agony.