Sufferings’ Child by Dr. Jernail S. Anand

We are responsible for all the good or evil that we do, and then, as a rebound, is done to us.  - Anand

Generally speaking, it is the weak people who suffer at the hands of the mighty. In case you are suffering, can it be construed as your weakness? The people who are weak actually break before suffering. But those who are suffering are not weak, but actually the strong people who can withstand adverse circumstances which lead to their suffering. To suffer and sustain, - it is a sign of strength, not a symptom of weakness. If we can see with cosmic vision, we shall find that almost everyone is undergoing suffering and it has a different denomination in each case. Still a case can be made out and proved too that men who are weak minded often suffer at the hands of the rich and the powerful.

To understand the logic of suffering, we need to delve a bit deeper. The simple equation of the powerful versus the powerless does not work.  Even the powerful have to suffer.  Suffering like happiness has divine roots. No doubt, it all depends on our choices, but the divine will lies in how we choose. If we are to suffer, our choices will be like that. If we are not be a sufferer, our choices will be different.

Suffering as the Will of God

Guru Arjen Dev ji, the fifth Guru of the Sikhs, was martyred most inhumanly. He was made to sit on a hot plate and burning sand was poured into his head. But in that condition, he says: Tera kiyameethalage. [O God, what you do, I find most sweet and agreeable]. The suffering was undeserved, and the Guru was praising God for all that was happening to him. Was this suffering god-given? Were those who were inflicting it on him as His instrument to blame? Yet the Guru just believed in the Will of God. Can we infer from here that all suffering has behind it some divine logic. Are those who give you suffering and pain, commissioned by gods? In other words, are they agents of the Divine as the jailors and others are who put people to eternal sleep at the noose, serve the king?

Why suffering?

Why suffering? This is the original question which remains to be answered. The Guru’s suffering was the highest. What we suffer are minor misfortunes. Accidents, deaths can be ascribed to fate, and fist-fights in the name of religion, and colour, to human folly. Most of the suffering that we see in the world is caused by human myopia, and man’s partiality for foolishness. Just imagine, what is your problem if the other person is a black or a white? Whether you are a Sikh or a Parsee? Does it make him any less human? Then our education causes segregation in society. If there are some superior people, they are superior because some others are inferior. There is a divide and sometimes it comes to a head. Take out your fists now. What are you waiting for?

Expectation & Moderation

Men are suffering because of their expectations. Desiring something is not unmanly. But, desiring things which can alter the cosmic equations can be disastrous. This needs moderation, which is an internal system. If time moderates you, it will not be without pain. If someone else moderates you, it can be full of shame. If you have an internal setting to moderate your dreams and desires, you will pull up a moderate face, and present yourself to the world as a man or a woman, who understands the logistics of the empirical and the divine. And it will not ruffle the feathers of the people unnecessarily. On seeing light, insects develop wings, and we men, develop fantasies, which cause a lot of romance, like coloured balloons, but it bring us down, rocking and shocking.

The Correction Force

What is the role of Police? Iron cuts iron. Evil cannot be contained by Poetry. Thieves need the fear of bullets to keep under check, not films with a reformist bias. Can punishment reform them? It is a moot question, when we look at Victor Hugo’s ‘Les Miserables’, which comments on blind application of law. What foxes me sometimes is: suffering to the people is caused by evil doers, thieves, killers, and marauders. Then, the soft work by the police stars. And they are sent to jails to suffer for their psychopathic fantasies. It is a strange hypothesis: that just a police is the correction force of the earthy powers, these thieves, killers, marauders are evil forces working at the divine command to punish people for their moral and spiritual crimes, which remain undetected by law.

Why should people suffer?

Why should people suffer? If there is an accident, and a man loses his arms, who is responsible for it? The car that collided with his car isnormally responsible for the suffering. And the law of the land will arraign the person driving the car. But, is it all about suffering? Has suffering no spiritual cognizance? Why he collided? Why only he was chosen for this suffering? And why this suffering was restricted to his arms? Why his eyes were spared?

Accidents are not accidental

It is an accident, but it is not accidental. The man was chosen. Now the question is who chose him for this eventuality? I believe, we are responsible for all the good or evil that we do, and then, as a rebound, done to us. In this way, this suffering to was self-inflicted. We might have done something which was waiting to involve us in that accident.

It may seem too farfetched.

Divine metabolism

But, I personally feel, that as CCTV cameras capture your physical movement, there is an ICCTV camera which is not only capturing but evaluating not only our actions, but our thoughts also which precede them. And, this divine metabolism makes sure we do what is essential for us to do. It is no overstatement if I say Gods are very kind to their men. Forget Lear and Gloucester. Gods ensure that only good is done to you. So, they are always guiding us in our thoughts and actions. And if we want to do something and we cannot do it, then, it should be inferred that gods wants us to engage ourselves in some other task. This is the Divine Will, to which we found our Great Guru subordinating himself.

Now, to this accident, it is squaring of some deals, bringing us even with some incidents. We go on acting, but we do not keep count of our excesses. But Gods do not slip even a good thought that we entertained from their notes. All the day, thinking and acting is going on. And the addition and subtraction goes on in divine computers. Such accidents are like some issue cropping up in the computer. Nothing more.

Author:

Dr Jernail Singh Anand, President of the International Academy of Ethics, is author of 167 books in English poetry, fiction, non-fiction, philosophy and spirituality. He was awarded Charter of Morava, the great Award by Serbian Writers Association, Belgrade and his name was engraved on the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. The Academy of Arts and philosophical Sciences of Bari  [Italy] honoured him with the award of an Honourable Academic.  Recently, he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy [Honoris Causa] by the University of Engg and Management, Jaipur. Recently, he organized an International Conference on Contemporary Ethics at Chandigarh. His most phenomenal book is Lustus:The Prince of Darkness [first epic of the Mahkaal Trilogy]. [Email: anandjs55@yahoo.com Mobile: 919876652401[Whatsapp] [ethicsacademy.co.in]

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