How Can I
End My
Suffering?
By Sri Anandagiriji
Suffering is not in the situation, in
the fact, but in the perception of the
fact.
There is a common belief in the world
today that we can transform a situation
by changing it. That is called situation
content. We think by transforming the
content that we are going to be happy
with it, but in reality the situation
has nothing to do with your happiness or
your sadness. It is in the way you look
at the situation – the way you perceive
the situation.
Very
often when something has happened, which
you did not expect, which you don’t like
or appreciate, the situation has long
past, but you still carry the situation
inside of you. You are constantly
questioning the situation with, Why? –
Why did this happen to me? What could I
have done differently? And you try to
offer many explanations as to why it
happened to you.
You see,
the suffering is not caused from the
situation itself, but in the way you are
questioning the situation, in your
inability to accept the situation, and
all the reasons you think this happened
to you. It is impossible in the current
state of the world, and with the karma,
that one can become completely free of
all problems. Problems are bound to be
there, for anybody and everybody –
whether they be rich or poor, educated
or uneducated or of any class or
location.
Problems
can be there, but there is no reason for
one to suffer, because the situation –
the problem – intrinsically does not
contain any suffering. When you reach a
level of consciousness where you can
accept situation in life fully, by being
alive to the situation, no matter what
the situation is, you will be happy.
Oneness Blessing can help you reach that
level.
Jesus
felt enormous Love and Compassion
because his brain was wired differently.
The Buddha was in the state of immense
peace and tranquilly because his brain
was wired differently. If you want to
feel that peace, if you want to feel
that love, it’s possible when the
changes happen in the physical, grey
matter in your own brain. When your
brain is wired differently, then it is
possible for you to experience that love
and peace. That’s what Oneness Blessing
does.
There is
not too much to explain about Oneness
Blessing because it is not a technique.
Sri Amma Bhagavan have not only given us
the experience of Enlightenment
(Oneness), but also have given us the
capacity to give this experience to
others through the Oneness Blessing. It
is an act of grace. When the Oneness
Blessing is given, there is a
neurobiological transformation which
leads to love, peace, bliss – whatever
you are really looking for, including an
end to suffering. Enlightenment
(Oneness) or whatever you want to call
this state is not a psychological
process. It is a biological process. If
it were a psychological process then
surly by practicing a technique it would
be possible to achieve. Since it’s not a
psychological process, it would be
impossible to get there by using a
teaching or a technique.
There is
no singular definition of Enlightenment,
but the way we understand Enlightenment
is that it is a state where all
suffering has ended – all psychological
suffering, and all existential
suffering. You live your life with no
more sense of isolation. You feel a part
of everything, you feel that everything
is a part of you. There is the
experience of connectedness, and you
don’t feel separated from others. So
when we speak of Enlightenment, we talk
of this experience where all division
has ended inside where the sense of
separate existence is gone. It is this
Enlightenment, through Oneness Blessing
that Sri Amma Bhagavan are bringing to
people. When Oneness Blessing is given,
you will find whatever it is that you
have been seeking.
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