The roots of pain
By James Anderson - Apr 24, 2013
This is a personal voyage through pain. The author, drawing on the wisdom of the Integral Yoga, attempts to trace the root-causes of pain and relate them to his own experience. Only by understanding its roots, he believes, can a complete solution be found and only by realising its illusion can the Truth behind pain fully emerge. This Truth, which is behind everything, transcends all pain and suffering.
Privilege of Pain — The Role of Pain in the Spiritual Journey
By Divyanshi Chugh - Oct 15, 2024
Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem, Savitri, amongst many things, is also a healer. The consciousness in the mantric words of Savitri helps heal and bring back the rhythm in life, through its own sweet rhythm. Besides, Savitri provides profound insights on the subject of ‘Suffering and Pain’, which can help us heal and grow even through pain. In the Canto, ‘The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain’, there are central lessons about the role of pain in the spiritual journey. In this study, we focus on unravelling these.
“Pain is the touch of our Mother”
By The Mother - Apr 24, 2021
Pain is the touch of our Mother teaching us how to bear and grow in rapture. She has three stages of her schooling, endurance first, next equality of soul, last ecstasy. As far as moral things are concerned, this is absolutely obvious, it is indisputable — all moral suffering moulds your character and leads you straight to ecstasy, when you know how to take it. But when it comes to the body... It is true that doctors have said that if one can teach the body to bear pain, it becomes more and more resilient and less easily disrupted — this is a concrete result. In the case of people who know how to avoid getting completely upset as soon as they have a pain somewhere, who are able to bear it quietly, to keep their balance, it seems that the body’s capacity to bear the disorder without going to pieces increases. This is a great achievement. I have asked myself this question from the purely practical, external standpoint and it seems to be like this. Inwardly, I have been told this many times — told and shown by small experiences — that the body can bear much more than we think, if no fear or anxiety is added to the pain. If we eliminate the mental factor, the body, left to itself, has neither fear nor apprehension nor anxiety about what is going to happen — no anguish — and it can bear a great deal. The second step is when the body has decided to bear it — you see, it takes the decision to bear it: immediately, the acuteness, what is acute in the pain disappears. I am speaking absolutely materially. And if you are calm — here, another factor comes in, the need for inner calm — if you have the inner calm, then the pain changes into an almost pleasant sensation — not “pleasant” in the ordinary sense, but an almost comfortable feeling comes. Again, I am speaking purely physically, materially. And the last stage, when the cells have faith in the divine Presence and in the sovereign divine Will, when they have this trust that all is for the good, th
The Genesis of Pain in the Matrix of Consciousness
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2022
Pain is the first disharmony felt by the body, the first anguish felt by the mind and the first recoil from the Ānanda of existence. It comes in myriad ways, warns us of dangers that attack us, makes us aware of our internal malfunctioning and instils in us the seed of caution. But it also motivates us to be free from its clutches and paves the way from disharmony to harmony.