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=What Is Suffering?=
Suffering is simply a natural consequence of past errors, not a punishment...It is part of the experience by which the soul through its instruments learns and grows until it is ready to turn to the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/resistances-sufferings-and-falls#p9</ref>
All underlight=What Is Suffering= Suffering is simply a natural consequence of past errors, all pain and suffering are not a sign punishment. It is part of imperfection, the experience by which the soul through its instruments learns and grows until it is ready to turn to the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/resistances-sufferings-and-falls#p9</ref> The shrinking of incompleteness; they arise the limited being from a division that which is not himself and not sympathetic or in harmony with himself, its impulse of beingself-defence against “others”.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2221/delight-of-existence-the-divine-lifesolution#p12p13</ref>
==In Different Parts of Being==
===Physical===
Physical sufferings are due to attacks In the physical, everything is inertia and ignorance: total ignorance of the Truth, ignorance of the Origin, ignorance of the forces Possibility, even ignorance of Ignorance. <ref>http://incarnatewordwhat needs to be done so as not to suffer materially.This ignorance is everywhere in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p3</ref> Suffering in Physical mind happens when it supports the repetition of old ideascells, habitsin this rudimentary consciousness, movements or actionsis translated as suffering. The body consciousness suffers from an apprehension or fear of the called-for change. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3107/depressionseptember-and28-despondency1966#p69p19</ref>
So, in the economy A certain vibration of Nature I think awakening—of reawakening—was necessary to emerge from that the first purpose tamas, which was incapable of physical suffering directly changing from tamas into Peace; something was needed to give you a warningshake the tamas, and outwardly it resulted in suffering.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0607/17september-november28-19541966#p19p18</ref>
===In Vital===
It The vital physical part (supported by the lowest part of the vital proper) is not therefore the soul but agent of most of the vital that takes pleasure in groaning and weeping lesser movements of our external life; its habitual reactions and obstinate pettinesses are the chief stumbling-block in fact in sorrow and suffering the way of the transformation of all kindsthe outer consciousness by the Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/sorrowthe-andphysical-sufferingconsciousness#p10p8</ref>
Usually the vital tries to resist the call to change. That is what is meant by revolt or opposition and invites suffering.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vital#p50</ref>
===In Mental===
Almost all human miseries come from the fact that human beings are almost always persuaded they know better than the Divine what they need and what life is supposed to bring them. The majority of human beings want other human beings to behave according to their own expectations and life circumstances to follow their own desires, hence they suffer and are unhappy.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/february-5-1972#p<ref> It is necessary to curb the mind’s impatience a little. Knowledge is progressive—if it tries to leap up to the top at once, it may make a hasty construction which it will have afterwards to undo. The knowledge and experience must come by degrees and step by step. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/mental-difficulties-and-the-need-of-quietude#p17</ref>
===In Psychic Being===
It is the inner being that suffers and always wants to unite with the divine consciousness but cannot because of the outer consciousness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/calm#p2<ref> =Why Suffering Happens?= There are sufferings that come from yourself, from circumstances or from the general state of things, that is, you are subject to these sufferings from your birth and none can escape them. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/20-january-1951#p18</ref> One can divide suffering into two distinct categories, although in practice they are very often mixed. The first is purely egoistic and comes from a feeling that one's rights have been violated, that one has been deprived of one's needs, offended, despoiled, betrayed, injured, etc.,The other category of suffering, whose initial ''cause'' is the pain of separation created by the adversary, is totally opposite in nature: it is the suffering that comes from divine compassion, the suffering of love that feels compassion for the world's misery, whatever its origin, cause or effect. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/5-february-1956#p2,p3,p4</ref> ===Separation and Ignorance=== The Ignorance which is the characteristic of our mind and life is the result of this origin in the Inconscience. Moreover, in the evolution out of inconscient existence there rise up naturally powers and beings which are interested in the maintenance of all negations of the Divine, error and unconsciousness, pain, suffering, obscurity, death, weakness, illness, disharmony, evil. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/spiritual-evolution-and-the-supramental#p28</ref> Pain affects us more intensely because it is abnormal to our being, contrary to our natural tendency and is experienced as an outrage on our existence, an offence and external attack on what we are and seek to be. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/delight-of-existence-the-problem#p5,p8</ref> The purpose and goal of life is not suffering and struggle but an all-powerful and happy realization. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/13/february-7-1972#p2<ref> =How to Deal with Suffering?= Life here is an evolution and the soul grows by experience, working out by it this or that in the nature, and if there is suffering, it is for the purpose of that working out, not as a judgment inflicted by God or Cosmic Law on the errors or stumblings which are inevitable in the Ignorance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/rebirth#p30</ref> All the stress of struggle and effort, success and failure, joy and suffering, the mixture of ignorance and knowledge would be the experience needed for the soul, mind, life and physical part to grow into the full light of a spiritual perfected being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-cosmic-illusion-mind-dream-and-hallucination#p6</ref> ===In the Physical=== In physical, when there is suffering, bring into oneself a kind of immobility, as total as possible, at the place of pain, this has the effect of an anaesthetic. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p22<ref> A strong equality and mastery and detachment must come in the nerves and body as in the mind, which will enable the physical to know and contact these things without feeling any disturbance; change the consciousness and not feel the pressure of the movements in the atmosphere then stop suffering. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/food#p29<ref> ==Turning to the Divine== The first thing to do is to look straight at this suffering, perceive to what extent it is the expression of a very petty egoism and then sweep the place clean. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p17<ref> The only remedy for all human suffering is divine love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/suffering#p6<ref> Additionally, always affirming to oneself your will to change and insisting that it shall be done and cannot fail to be done now or later with divine help. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/depression-and-despondency#p70<ref>One step to go beyond human suffering is to know that this life is not all. Another step forward is to learn that this surface waking state is only a small part of his being. While discovering self and spirit he discovers God and comes to the vision of that Self in the cosmic consciousness as the divine Reality behind Nature and this world of beings. This is the step on the path which leads out of falsehood and suffering. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-progress-to-knowledge-god-man-and-nature#p18<ref> ==Rejection== You have to stand back from the feeling of suffering, anguish and apprehension, reject it and look quietly at the resistance, affirming always to yourself your will to change and insisting that it shall be done and cannot fail to be done now or later with the divine help, because the divine help is there. It is then that the strength can come to you that will overcome the difficulties. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/depression-and-despondency#p73</ref> ===Surrender=== All suffering is the sign that the surrender is not total. Then, when one feels a "bang", like that, instead of saying, "Oh, this is bad" or "This circumstance is difficult," one says, "My surrender is not perfect." Then it's all right. And then you feel the Grace that helps and leads, and one goes on. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/11-may-1967#p3</ref> ==Suicide== Suicide is the worst way that anyone could take to get out of a spiritual difficulty. It only increases and prolongs the difficulty. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/dealing-with-depression-and-despondency#p59<ref>
=Why Suffering Happens?=