Suffering!

NO ONE IS FREE FROM SUFFERING
We must indeed develop this spirit of compassion. Compassion in sense is natural because we ourselves are experiencing suffering in this world and we know the pain of suffering. So if we see that someone else is going through what we are going through then naturally there is compassion. So first one has to know what suffering is, at least to some extent. If one has suffered one becomes more compassionate because one begins to realize that this is too much, this suffering , I mean, no one should be going through this......There are no exceptions in this world: no one is free from suffering.


LORD BUDDHA'S SEES SUFFERING
It reminds me of the story of the Buddha who was a prince in a Vedic royal family and it is said that His father at an early age had heard a prophecy that his son was very spiritually inclined and might just take to spiritual life, therefore His father made all the arrangements to only have enjoyments in His life and so there was no suffering.
Suffering was not entering the palace , it wasn’t there. There were no old people , there were no diseased people , everyone was just beautiful and everyone was just enjoying. But when the prince was grown up one day He just independently went out and He actually saw so many old people, He had never seen this before: What is wrong with these people, what‘s happened? What’s happened that they look like this ? Oh you don’t know, they are old, everyone will become like this. Everyone? Yes. I have never seen such a person. So yes, everyone must become old like this even you. So He realized that this material world is a place full of suffering and His focus had became to be free from suffering.....


DEVOTIONAL SERVICE CAN DESTROY SUFFERING
A vaishnava automatically becomes free from suffering by developing an ecstatic relationship with Krishna. That ecstatic relationship with Krishna removes all suffering. Therefore it is said that devotional service destroys all suffering. We are automatically overcoming suffering, that is the nature of devotional service, although it may take some time.


(Kadamba Kanana Swami 30/01/2005)