Suffering of all kinds, big or small, grave or mild, exasperates us. It confuses and humbles us, more often than not. Our otherwise brave, strong shoulders droop from the burden of a hard life, which often gets harder, despite our efforts. We often sigh, grudge and acknowledge our lack of control. Why all this pain, we often wonder.
No, there are highest principles, the highest truths. Meanings may seem relative, but that is because all these are meanings at some intermediary levels, not the highest one. Relativity, of all kinds; moral, philosophical, or ideological, exists only at unevolved, lower mental planes. At the acme, at the consummation of human cognition, relativity is lost to give way to absolute laws. To the highest principles.
While suffering is the result of breaking the natural law, it is also an important clue to align with it. Suffering has a dual characteristic that way. The painful effect of transgression as well as a tool for alignment.
The identity principle is another major source of human suffering. “I am better than them”. “I am not as competent as her”.” I am a liberal”. ” I am the underdog”. It is our entire personality, both its dormant and active aspects. The stronger the individuality, the more embellished, more fortified, more powerful the person. More famous, more sought after, more emulated.
We have now sufficiently understood how the psyche-mind self-organizes and self-builds, bottom-up, from the raw material of samskaras. Samskaras are the fuel, the impetus for this cyclical feedback loop. Catching the slippery samskaras by their tail, deep inside the waters of the psyche and quashing them is the only way to dismantle the beast.
