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ll pleasures you get in life; they come with a tax and that tax is a pain. Every event however pleasant causes pain at the end. Greater the joy, greater is the pain. Longing for an event is again a pain. Before you want something the feverishness of wanting it is painful, when it is gone, the memory of its joy is painful. Pain and love are two sides of the same coin. Love causes tremendous amount of pain and so does separation. A wish causes tremendous amount of pressure in the mind. Trying into please someone cause pain; to know and understand whether they are pleased or not also causes pain. You want to know the other persons mind while you still don't know your own mind. Pain is everywhere in this world. When you realise that everything in this world is pain, then what do you do..?
The root cause of pain needs to be eliminated. Pain which has not come into our life, which has not sprouted should be nipped right at the beginning. How do you do that? Forgetting fullness of yourself as separate from your environment is the main cause of pain. Lack of perception causes pain. For some people their life is in a bank account. If the bank closes, then that person will have a heart attack.what ever you give more importance to in life becomes the difference that the seer is separate from its surroundings it helps in eliminating the pain.
The entire creation is made up of five elements, ten sense organs, five organs of action. This entire creation is there to give you pleasure and relief. Whatever gives you pleasure, should also give you relief, otherwise the very pleasure becomes pain. Say you like Apple pie, but eating too much might cause a stomach ache. In the same way, things which gives you pleasure can also make you suffer.
