Pain is the joy of life. A line from famous Madhushala says, Peeda ka anand jise hai, Aaye meri Madhushala (only those who have the pleasure of pain are invited to come to my place). The first question though arise here ‘is it necessary to have the experience of pain? Shall we invite pain to our life?’
In Indian mythology, there are plenty of examples of sages gone through the phase of tapasya to get the desired outcome. We always here and there come across the phrase ‘no pain, no gain’. In my view, the common tendency of avoid pain as long as possible is the way things should be. First, a forced pain is a sadist’s ammunition. Second, the hardships and the pain of that hardship can only be meaningful if it is really we cannot avoid by all means. Take example, for a millionaire’s son, if he will abstain himself from using inheritance for his own growth and instead do everything on his own from starting, is this pain worth of. There can be contrasting views on that, but what I think is that, he should utilize all his resources and then if he is coming across with pain and hardship in aspiring for something which is really beyond his existing capability, it is worth of.
So, pain should not be unwarranted, it should be something which has to be experienced after much resistance. The joy of pain, the experience out of it which can be described only after that phase is passed, but there is a huge learning curve attached. Perhaps the learning from failures is more than the learning from successes. To look back and diagnose the real issues are some of the key outcomes a painful experience gives.
What kind of pain, physical or emotional? Well, all pains are emotional only, because we experience physical pain only when it reaches to our emotional cord, and that’s why people have different level of tolerance against physical activities.
In Indian mythology, there are plenty of examples of sages gone through the phase of tapasya to get the desired outcome. We always here and there come across the phrase ‘no pain, no gain’. In my view, the common tendency of avoid pain as long as possible is the way things should be. First, a forced pain is a sadist’s ammunition. Second, the hardships and the pain of that hardship can only be meaningful if it is really we cannot avoid by all means. Take example, for a millionaire’s son, if he will abstain himself from using inheritance for his own growth and instead do everything on his own from starting, is this pain worth of. There can be contrasting views on that, but what I think is that, he should utilize all his resources and then if he is coming across with pain and hardship in aspiring for something which is really beyond his existing capability, it is worth of.
So, pain should not be unwarranted, it should be something which has to be experienced after much resistance. The joy of pain, the experience out of it which can be described only after that phase is passed, but there is a huge learning curve attached. Perhaps the learning from failures is more than the learning from successes. To look back and diagnose the real issues are some of the key outcomes a painful experience gives.
What kind of pain, physical or emotional? Well, all pains are emotional only, because we experience physical pain only when it reaches to our emotional cord, and that’s why people have different level of tolerance against physical activities.
Heated gold becomes ornament. Beaten copper becomes wires. Depleted stone becomes statue. So the more pain you get in life you become more valuable !!
