[Chaturamnaya] Enquiry and Sadhana - 6

[Sankaran Kartik Jayanarayanan]

(Continued from previous post)

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D: I am often baffled and depressed
during or outside my meditation by the
thoughts of millions of souls who are either
quite ignorant or quite innocent, and are
suffering intolerable pains and tortures in
this world; e.g. (a) starvation of the poor
by famine, poverty or unemployment;
(b) pain and suffering through diseases of
ignorant people caused by ignorance of laws
of hygiene, diet or poverty; (c) bombing of
innocent women and children; (d) suffering
through floods, earthquakes, etc. of
innocent and poor persons; (e) killing of
animals for food; (f) insects and lower animals
being eaten up by higher animals in
nature, and so on.
I try to convince myself that all this must
be due to their evil karma in past lives, but
doubts still arise as to how and by whom
their free will was so directed as to force
them to commit such actions. If it was due
to desire, why or how did they come to get
it or such tendencies originally ? If it is due
to avidya, dehadhyas, etc., how can they be
held responsible for the same?

M: First find out whether the ego exists,
who is depressed by these thoughts. Find
out how you got the idea of the body. Solve
this problem of your ego, then see if anything
remains to be solved.


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