SHE ALWAYS COMES WITH A PURPOSE

She came to me many a times, though sparingly, with gentle steps often and some heavy ones in between. But every time she came, she set me to thinking…..giving me an opportunity to contemplate about what her purpose of coming was. At times, it was very obvious, but sometimes it really took a lot of energy, courage and time to search and find the right purpose and then accept what the purpose was. And then to absorb the purpose into my life with whole-hearted acceptance was another effort. However, I am very grateful to her for having come to me from time to time and for becoming an eye opener whenever she visited me.

As far as I remember, the shorter, softer visits have been literally forgotten and often their messages were not even considered, I suppose. So, she, too, would not spare me and that is why would decide to make another visit to teach me what I missed out the previous time. My memories are crystal clear about the major visits she made when she really hit hard enough to put sense into my head. This time her visit has actually shaken off many a notion of mine about Life and living, about the very purpose of our existence. Her visit has reinforced into my consciousness the uncertain and transitory nature of our whole life which exists only in moments.

This time she was with me for about a month. Some may say that she comes unannounced.  But I know that she always sends her brief messages and only if we do not realize that she is coming and ignore her pointers that she comes in with a big bang and then we are taken aback, surprised, rolling in self-pity and wondering why she had to target us, why she had come to us and not someone else. We are a very strange species. As long as she visits others, we very comfortably sermon to them about how to treat her and how she comes only if you are destined for her visit and blab la blab la.

I must say that her visit this time really has left me refreshed. I am very well aware that she has not visited me suddenly. She has been sending me signals for quite some time   now and I have not been paying attention to what she was indicating at and just brushed her aside and let  life go on as if everything was fine and  all that was crossing my path was non-existent. This is how we often live. We do not see or accept that which we do not want to for the lack of courage and comprehension of the situation, if it is beyond our capability to handle or acknowledge.

So, she was sending her small but significant messages and I ignored them for lack of time or whatever other reason I may give. Then, one day she came with her full vigour and, there I was unable to move under the force of her pressure. I lay flat on the bed for a week, thinking deeply about what I might have done that she visited m e with so much of enthusiasm this time. I reflected upon the commissions and omissions on my part  in the recent past. I wondered what her message was for me this time for my future. I relaxed although she had literally entangled me with her powerful pangs. I watched her while she was with me in her ebb and flow. I prayed for the clarity of her purpose to dawn on me.

Slowly, as days passed and her intensity of being with me reduced, I sensed her intentions to a certain extent. When she refused to leave me soon, I found that she was only trying to confirm, reaffirm and ascertain her message that she wished to leave behind. And now after a month, I can surely say that her coming has installed a joy within me because her being with me for so long gave me the confidence of my conviction of the direction my life was struggling to take. I am very grateful to her for her visit. This is indeed a turning point of my life, though whenever she comes, life takes a  turn to move onto a new path. But I am filled with a divinely fragrant freshness never experienced before, surrounded with energy never enjoyed before. My whole being is vibrating with positivity and playfulness that is pregnant with creativity, never ever seen before. I suppose that the process of blooming has begun.

And do you know who this great visiting teacher of mine was? Who was this powerful visitor who brings a great message with her, whenever she arrives? Who is this whom people, normally, do not wish to welcome? Who is this great contributor who enhances the quality of our existence?

Well, her name is PAIN. Pain is never seen as a positive contributor in our lives. Science has made all devices to kill it. No one wishes to meet her. Pain is treated as an outcast, never to be touched and only to be driven away by all means. But is pain not a natural phenomenon, and how can something that is natural be unworthy of itself? Everything that Nature provides has a purpose. PAIN, TOO, HAS HER PURPOSE. We only need to find out what it is. Pathology can only find the physical causes of pain and suggestions lead to treatments that are only the physical. But we are not just physical beings. We are beings beyond the physical. Pain is a symptom of something underlying.

When she visits me, I talk to her in my solitude. She talks of herself as an indicator of direction, as an indicator of the imbalance. She takes pride in saying that she is the most prominent member of a class of sensations known as bodily sensations, and has her feathers of volume, intensity, duration, etc., that decide whether she is acute or chronic. She is very private, subjective, self-intimating and a source of incorrigible knowledge for those who have her visit them. She, also humbly, introduces herself as being no different from the standard perceptual processes like seeing, hearing, touching, tasting or smelling. She qualifies herself as sensory and emotional experience, and as a matter of fact says that she brings along an unpleasant awareness of a noxious stimulus. Nevertheless, she cautions that she is whatever the experiencing person says she is, existing whenever and wherever that person says she does. That is what she means when she says that she is subjective. She, further, tells me that it is very easy to treat her and she generally leaves if properattention is paid to her in a relaxed manner. She also brings to my notice her importance as being the body’s defense mechanism system that triggers a reflex reaction to retract from any painful stimulus and helps to adjust behavior to increase avoidance of that particular harmful situation in future. She promotes learning. Hence, she is a very significant part of the existence of all living beings. She encourages an organism to disengage from any stimulus that will invite her to visit. She is vital for healthy survival.  

However, something that was very interesting was when she informed me of her various forms – physical, emotional, spiritual and even intellectual.

When she visits the body, she is trying to slow down the speed with which that body is trying to move in this universe or may be she is trying to change the direction of the life of that person or may be she is drawing attention to our negligence towards the body and is suggesting that one needs to take greater care of this instrument, called Body, which is, perhaps, being abused due to lack of awareness of this gift from the Divine.

When she visits the emotions, she is trying to bring about an inner awakening about the futility of the entanglements that one gets into due to ignorance about one’s True Self. She is trying to pull that person out of the muddle of attachments that is dragging towards downfall of that person. One emerges emotionally enriched after her visit here. Her visits to the emotions are only for the evolution of the being she visits.

Her visit rinses and wriggles the intellect to squeeze out the dormant within. When one is drowned in the pool of intellectual activity, one has to dive deep to fetch the pearl that one is searching for and is unable to find. That is the time of her visit. When the intellectual growth is intended, she creates situations in the intellect that are necessary for the birth of new ideas and inventions.

At the spiritual level, she visits only a chosen few. Not everyone is able to recognize her at that level. But, the ones who do, experience such great spiritual sensation, which is beyond explanation by use of mundane words. It is said that the bud has to bear the pain of bursting to bloom into a beautiful flower that its potential is. So, pain takes the one who sees her positivity to a new spiritual high. Such a person blooms and is engulfed with a divine fragrance which floats, flows and follows the person everywhere.

So, pain is a teacher who brings her lessons to us, provided we are able to take them.

The first lesson was GO SLOW.

The second lesson was that YOUR PAIN BELONGS ONLY TO YOU.

Another one is LAUGH and Life will flow in a blissful rhythm becoming a rhapsody.

The fourth lesson is to LISTEN TO YOUR INNER SELF AND FOLLOW YOUR INTUITION.

The  POWER OF THOUGHT can be experienced very well when one wishes to get out of a painful situation..

JUST RELAX AND LET THE UNIVERSE WORK FOR YOU, was yet another significant message.

SHE IS A GREAT TEACHER. There could be no greater teacher than PAIN. Pain definitely has a purpose and a great role in our lives. Pain has her own mysterious ways of teaching. We, only, have to be open our chalice and let the learning be poured into our being for us to have a more purposeful living.

Bindu
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