The source of the sufferings

This text says what is the origin of the sufferings without objective causes. Sometimes some people live a terrible malaise whose cause they do not know. This text explains this fundamental cause and proposes a remedy. It speaks about a misidentified fundamental need.

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The solution should be found elsewhere

It happens that you are confronted with some difficulties, with many problems and some people seek a solution to each encountered problem. This pragmatic approach is valid if the problems are factual: is a tire of your car burst ? You assemble the spare wheel or use the repair bomb. Doesn't your remote control function any more? You change the batteries. Are you with overdraft? You negotiate this overdraft or borrow from a relative, friend or acquaintance.

But if the source of your problem is unknown,

that no solution is on a material plan 

and that your life is negatively impacted 

it will be necessary to seek the solution elsewhere.

The suffering is one and indivisible, 

it has only one source

The dissatisfaction, the frustration, the tyrannical desires, the existential doubts, the fear of death, the feeling of uselessness, of mediocrity, the lack of love, real or supposed, have all the same origin and there is no point of seeking a solution to each one of these moods. It is a waste of time. The suffering is one and indivisible, it has only one source.

''The suffering doesn’t exist any more 

For the one who is touched by the Grace become serene his Conscience clears up '' 

[Bhaktimàrga 2-7-25]

Imagine a bad smell in your house… you put incenses in each room, you clean the ground but it doesn’t seem to make a difference. The solution is to find the origin of this bad smell.

One day, a very unpleasant odor reigned in my house and I pulverized products supposed to kill the odors, in vain. I cleaned the ground with soap, in vain. I lit incenses, in vain.

Then , finally I made it differently: I opened my nostrils into large and concentrated myself… “You are hot, you are cool…”.  Finally I arrived in the kitchen, to the rack with vegetables. I excavated the potato net and found there one of these tubers which had rotted. It stank terribly. I got rid of it and my house found a pleasant atmosphere. The mental anguish often has only one and the same origin.

The ceaseless race with acquisitions 

does not bring satisfaction

The solution I know it and invites you to know it too. In you there is the nostalgia of a state known in the past, which started as of your birth and continued, in childhood to leave you with the age of wisdom, or rather it is your attention which left this state.

The race where the society of the human beeings launches you 

will not bring you satisfaction nor Peace. 

A fundamental need requires something of fundamental to be satisfied.

The path offers you a means of knowing the source of satisfaction, the happiness of the moment. It is the Agya: a daily practice that each one will adapt to its life. To know this Agya it should be asked for.

''Seek, you will find and knock, one will open to you ask and one will give you,
 the beggar has to beg ''
[Bhaktimàrga 2-7-7]

The seekers of truth

 

Many people consider themselves as seekers but there are many kinds of seekers: some who seek answers and some who seek just because they like to seek, collecting the answers without never stopping on one. These types are described here.

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The various seekers

Among the people who are not satisfied to simply exist so as to exist and who seek a major meaning to their life, there is the atheist who believes neither in a God, nor in a transcendence not more than in a main cause and which lives in this world without hope of an after.

There is the believer who inherited his religion from his parents. He believes and has no questions. He is deaf with any voice coming from the outside. He does not have any doubt.

There is the seeker who was not satisfied with what he has been taught and who looks around. He carries his glance far and reads books written in other languages, with other words where are exotic practices full with singing words and heady perfumes. Among this kinds of seekers there is:

The bookish

He seeks especially books and concepts and, as with a lego, manufactures a custom-tailored faith, taking here and there what consolidates him in his intuitions and his concepts. He creates a sort of syncretism, of mental construction which will vary in doing some readings and meetings. Each met precept will be compared to the standard of his a-priori.

''When your mind has passed through the wall of illusion

all your concepts will be gone.''

[Bhaktimàrga 1-4-45]

He who doubts

The second one is full with questionings, doubts and hopes. He doubts of himself, hopes for something without knowing what and turned on the right and left without never being satisfied with what he meets. He reads, also, discusses and admires those which say knowing but doubts to know in turn.

  

The first seeker is attached to his research: he sought so much, seeks so much still as he became a research professional. He piles up the concepts, the words and the innovations. But he never will couple on a way rather on another so much his mental construction, fruit of his research, fasten him. He became a seeker and lives for this research. To find is not his goal.

''The attachment is made with burning and endless desires

which chain you to the fruits of your acts ''

[Bhaktimàrga 1-2-32]

The second seeker knows that he does not know 

and his doubts allow him the modesty. 

He aspires to an intuition who would come from he does not know where

but which would fill him entirely. 

To seek does not satisfy him. 

The intuition which pushes him ahead 

comes from a hidden memory at the deepest of him,

that of the Peace which lives inside him since ever 

and which he does not know any more so much the noises of the world

take all the place of his Conscience. 

The warriors

  

Certain seekers know that it is necessary for them to tend towards the best and that they carry in them the weight which draws them downwards. They furbish their weapons and prepare with the war. They chose their captain, that which will guide them, in the battle to come, and will have to lead them to the victory: themselves ! They do not know who they are but count on themselves, on their own forces to attack, then to overcome, this inertia full with darkness which attaches them where Peace may not be.

There is in each one as somebody who takes pleasure in unconsciousness, the concepts and the self-love. This somebody does not have a name, or has thousands of them according to whether one is from here or there. Here is one which is worth others of them: “that-which-separates”, false-ego, devil. As its name says it well it cannot be united and does not want it. Each time its host goes in the right direction it always finds a flower, on the side, that it will pick thus moving away from the way to the risk of meeting the wolf.

The traps

If the host is, definitely, attracted by the things of God and defies himself of it, it will find the words to keep it under its influence like: “God is tall, I am very small… I do not deserve it ” or: “the devil malicious, it is necessary to fight it and overcome it ” “and if I learned all this small written big book by heart, each word, each comma? I would be holy and so much worse if I must devote to it all my time during so many years! '' '' I do not have time, when I am old I will do ” finally… Anything provided that occupies its host without risk for itself. 

 

Never nobody has defeated and never, in Truth, nobody will overcome the evil. The human is so weak! Oh, for killing each other, destroy the species which cohabit with him on the planet he is very powerful ! To overcome his stupidity, his meanness, his heaviness, his unconsciousness he does not have any force. Even for simply overcoming his sexual desire, of nicotine, food in abundance, recognition he is weak. Then as regards overcoming, in him, “that-which-separates” !

To achieve the goal

However it is his goal and he will have to reach it and he will reach it with certainty as true as one and one are two, one day or the other. What the time seen from the eternity? Nothing. But he will need help to do it.

God, his Grace which is inside you 

since your birth, can help you. 

This Grace is as a rain which runs all the time. 

It is enough to place you below. 

To place you below is what you can do. 

Some, motivated, make Titan efforts, give everything and inflict themselves deprivations, a terrible asceticism to reach this Grace and yet they don’t put themselves below because they do not go to the good place. A sine qua non condition is necessary to be placed at the place where the Grace runs inside you and this condition is to admit that you cannot anything, lowering the weapons, making conceal your claims and requiring the assistance: to call the Help.

“Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; 

give the sign, and the door will be open to you ”

[matthieu 7:7]