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The Magic of Three S's

Suffering.......Strongness.......Spirituality

Most of the times I feel suffering as a key to strongness which can be (in the cases of saints it is chanalised) chanalised to spirituality.

In India there were many women like Muktabai, Janabai, Meerabai, Kanhopatra who are well known as saints in India. If we look at their life history, it is full of hardship and suffering. Even if we observe the details of life of many of the saints in the world say Jesus Christ, Jnaneshwara, Dolce of Worms, Miao-tsung whose life was full of suffering that made them strong enough to proceed towards the path of spiritualty.

Muktabai and Jnaneshwara were sister and brother. Their parents died early and the four children became orphanes which were not supported by the society in their village. Since childhood their life was full of struggle and suffering just like a bread rosted on fire. The legend tells that despite of all the suffering, these siblings were growing stronger and stronger preaching people in the society about spirituality. It was the harshness of castism and customs due to these siblings suffered. In order to wipe out this (castism and customs) they founded a particular group opening the doors of spirituality to all common people. These siblings not only preached society but while preparng themselves to face the world, they guided eachother by time to time. Here is a story about Janeshwara and his youngest sister Muktabai.

Once Janeshwara wanted to eat mande (a kind of sweet roti). To make mande a clay pot was needed for which Janeshwara asked to a potter. The potter was ready to give it to him but one of the higher cast person prohibted the potter to give it to Jnaneshwara and abused him. 12 years old Jnaneshwara was hurted and felt very angry. Jnaneshwara couldn't show his anger and returned back to their hut. He was disturbed and angry so he had shut the door of their hut. Muktabai, his youngest sister who was just 8 years old was surprised to see her brother's anger and tried to calm down him. She guided him that "if people behave like fire then we should behave like water to calm down the fire." At last Janeshwara opened the door and Muktabai rosted the mande on Jnaneshwara's back which had become like a fire due to anger. There are many other interesting stories regarding these siblings which might come in future references. The suffering in their life made them stronger with which they reached a level of jeevanmukta (the one who attained liberation). Similarly we can say about Jejus Christ who was crusified by his people but he prayed for them. He suffered a lot but it leaded to strongness which made his path much easier to spirituality.