Made of Joy
Joy, ananda, is your nature, which is eternal. We are seeking for that joy. That’s the purpose of life, to find happiness or ananda. Pain is illusory; it is not real. It it were real, then suppose you lost a thousand dollars, you would always be sorry, suffering, because of the loss. But as the days and months go by, slowly that pain will disappear; it will disintegrate like mist. Even if you lost our most loved ones, your daughter, mother, husband or wife – that sorrow will only last for a period of time. That sorrow will not go on forever.
For example, take a piece of iron and put that iron into burning charcoal. When you take it out, it is red hot. It has got the quality of fire. But as you hold that iron rod for some time, slowly, slowly, it will lose its heat because heat is not its nature. In the same way, pain is not your nature. No matter what type of pain it is, as time goes by, like the iron rod loses its heat, so also you lose your pain, because that is not your real nature. Your inherent nature is joy, ananda, which is eternal. That is the message of yoga and Vedanta.
Aus dem Buch: Vishnudevananda Upadesa – Teachings of Swami Vishnudevananda
