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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

The Suffering..... Existence of God


The Suffering...... Existence of God

Whenever I think about suffering, I remember a story from Mahabharata about Kunti
(Mother of Pandavas; a character from Mahabharata) and Lord Krishna. At last when Lord Krishna asks his Aunt Kunti to ask a boon and she asks to give sufferings in her remaining life. Krishna asks the reson behind such a strange wish. The answer from Kunti is really spiritual. She replies that it is because of the sufferings I always remember you, I always felt the existence of you with me.

I think there is a strong connection between the suffering and realising or tending towards the path of realisation of existence of God with or within us. We can see this common element in most of the Saint's lives irrespective of religion such as Saint Dyaneshwar, Swami Vivekananda, Jesus Christ and many more.

What do you think?

posted by Shantisudha @ 12:11 pm

8 Comments:

At 5:16 pm, June 28, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said...

vow - Did u mean a boon?

 
At 5:21 pm, June 28, 2005, Blogger Shantisudha said...

Thanks for correcting! yes I wanted to say a boon. (Sigh!!)

 
At 6:43 pm, June 28, 2005, Blogger The Transparent Ironist said...

Hah! I could not disagree more strongly. The suffering of Kunti is not spiritual but patriarchal. This is, in fact, just another example of what I have always believed about why (some, if not many) women suffer from a 'persecution complex'. Men want to inflict suffering on women, and they brainwash women, right from their childhood, into accepting this suffering by making them believe that this suffering is (somehow) spiritual. This is how generation after generation of women are brought up to silently accept whatever suffering men may choose to inflict on them by this prehistoric piece of subtle sophistry.

 
At 8:03 pm, June 28, 2005, Blogger Shantisudha said...

I agree about what you are saying in the comment but I am talking about the general suffering of human beings.

In case of Kunti, she might have regreted herself or abused somebody who dragged her in the suffering but it is true that she felt Lord Krishna nearer to her or with her in her sufferings. In the similar way Drupadi also might have felt because the cause of her suffering was also patriarchal. In the similar context but through Karana's view his suffering was a matriarchal and he also felt Lord Krishna nearer always.

Here my point is that suffering take us (Human beings) more and more near to realise or to tend to search the existence of God.

 
At 1:01 pm, June 29, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sant Kabir says "Dukh Mein Simran Sab Kare, Sukh Mein Kare Na Koye
Jo Sukh Mein Simran Kare, Tau Dukh Kahe Ko Hoye"

 
At 4:59 pm, June 29, 2005, Blogger Shantisudha said...

Dear Radha,
I beg your parden. I don't know the meaning of 'Simran'. Can you explain it?

 
At 6:34 pm, June 29, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sorry! Many of the peoms use a vikriti form and simran in this doha is sumiran, called in contemporary hindi as smaran.

 
At 6:42 pm, June 29, 2005, Blogger Shantisudha said...

But it is quite rare to keep 'smaran' while being happy. I think again Kabir here wants to say about 'remembering God'. But I see it in other context. I take the meaning as being conscious. Remembering God is also a consciousness in itself.

 

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