Padmanabhan Janakiraman
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Why GOD Makes us Suffer and Enjoy Happinrss?
Isn't God all-good?” Why does He gives sufferings to who pray to Him all the time; then what use praying Him and visiting Temples etc?
This question is in the minds of everyone at one point or the others.
I was searching for an answer to this question and got a clue from Ramana Maharishis’s life history!!
Happiness and suffering happen due to our past actions.
So do not think that physical suffering or happiness will not happen to those who have become liberated while living.
Ramana Maharshi died of cancer. It was very painful, naturally. It was a deep malady -- there was no way of escaping it.
Many doctors came, and they were very puzzled because the whole body was torn with pain but there was no sign of any pain in his eyes. His eyes remained the same serene lakes as ever. Through his eyes only the witnessing self arose; it was the witnessing self that looked, that observed.
Doctors would ask, "You must be in great pain?"
Ramana would reply, "Yes there is great pain, but it is not happening to me. I am aware that there is great pain happening to the body; I know that there is great pain happening. I am seeing it, but it is not happening to me."
A question arises in the minds of many people as to how a man like Ramana, who is liberated and enlightened, gets a disease like cancer.
Happiness and suffering will be happening to the body, even to those who are liberated while living, because these are related to past actions and their impressions, they are related to whatsoever has been done before becoming awakened.
So happiness and suffering keep coming to the liberated one also, but such a person knows that these are part of the chain of his past actions and now he has nothing to do with them: he will just go on witnessing.
When somebody comes and offers flowers at the feet of Ramana, he just goes on watching -- it must be a part of some past chain of actions that prompt this person to give him happiness. But Ramana does not take the happiness; the person gives, but he does not take it. Should he take, the journey of a new action will begin. He does not prevent the person from offering flowers -- "Don't give happiness to me, don't offer flowers to me, and don’t touch my feet" -- he does not prevent him, because that prevention too would be an action and another chain of action would begin.
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Try to understand this. This man has come to offer flowers to Ramana; he has put a garland around his neck, he has put his head at his feet.
And what is Ramana doing within? He is just watching: "There must be a past transaction with this man, some past impressions of action; the man is now completing it. But now the transaction has to come to an end, no further chain has to be created. This matter is finished here, it will not continue."
So he will just sit there and will not prevent that man from doing anything... because what will 'preventing' really mean? It will mean first, that you are not ready to take back the past action where you had given and which you would have to take back when preventing this man's action.
And second, you are creating another chain of relationship with this man by asking him not to do a certain thing. Now when will this new relationship end? You are creating another action; you are reacting.
No, Ramana will just go on watching, whether a man brings flowers to him or cancer comes. He will even watch the cancer happening.
Ramakrishna also died of cancer. He had throat cancer. Even water would not go down his throat; food would not go down his throat. Then one day Vivekananda asked Ramakrishna, "Why don't you tell mother Kali? It is just a matter of your telling her and in a moment your throat would be cured." Ramakrishna just laughed and said nothing.
One day, when Vivekananda had insisted too much;
Ramakrishna said, "You don't understand. It is necessary to be finished with whatever is one's own doing, otherwise one will have to come back again only to finish it. So it is right to allow whatever is happening to happen; it is not right to hinder it."
Now coming to the question in everyone’s mind;
If by doing Abhishekam at various Temple or by visiting many Temples, one could win over sufferings and death, then I am sure the Hindu Population would stay put only in temples!!
"God never derives pleasure from giving pain to us. We are given choices at every point of life, did we take the right decisions;
Suffering and pain is like night and day. It is only when we undergo sufferings... we truly realize the value of happiness
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