PLEASURE AND PAIN

OM HUM HANUMATHE NAMAH

PLEASURE AND PAIN.

            Pleasure and pain are both sides of the same coin.  They cannot exist independently.  Their association is so intertwined and interdependent that only a YOGI /SAINT/INCARNATION  in human form can only be able to separate and see them apart.  That is why in Hindu mythology only the Swan is the bird which is used to describe the SAINT/YOGI.  A swan with its unique power can separate milk and water .  Similarly is the analogy that to say about Pleasure and pain.  The paradox of universe that when one form of life experiences Pleasure and the pain is experienced by the other form.  A simple way of explaining this analogy is experience of the senses:  can be sensory enjoyments or the sensory enjoyment of the palate.  You may experience delight is enjoying varieties of dishes , but the pain has been borne by the living beings that have become your food.   Just the beginning of human life is associated with pain and pleasure at one go.  While the mother experiences pain in giving birth to the baby, pleasure is experienced side by side for having continued the generation of having got an Offspring.   The ultimate step  human journey Death is an experience of pain and pleasure.  While the offspring, relatives , dependents  experience pain of having lost their dear one , the departing soul is happy of having ended this journey with all the troubles associated with old age and beginning a fresh and energetic journey elsewhere.   But the final question is “ if pain and pleasure are so intricately associated with this world or human life, is there no end for it. And if not what is the final way out.   “  .  Though all major religions from Hinduism to Christianity speak of life of renunciation , unattached , honest life , is it the final way out.  Yes , but not all people can follow this life.  All religions preach love  , love your neighbor, love everybody , it is practically possible.  Yes, but this is a path of journey similar to a fable where a monkey which climbs  two feet up but falls by four feet downwards. 

To be continued

OM HUM HANUMATHE NAMAH