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... times of intense or prolonged mental and physical suffering can be of great use... When nothing remains, when all the joys and comforts of sensuous life seem memories only dimly to be recalled, and with great effort, [one] may be able to consciously abandon all [] expectations of happiness from [the] usual sources, and seek it from within. Even without the conscious effort many have experienced flashes of it. Under torture, when the only desire left has been to die, some have passed to a state of awareness previously unknown to them, and they have known their real being to be out of the reach of their persecutors. Very ill people often seem braver and calmer than those who come to sympathise with them, and again this is because from the depths of them their real nature, which is self sufficient and always perfect, has to some small extent revealed itself through a mind which no longer grasps at worldly things. But on return to health, this experience is often forgotten and the old way of life is recommenced.
Suffering, then, has a use... [to] reveal the eventual hollowness of temporary joys, and show that the opportunity to find complete happiness is there with[in], and always has been.... To satisfy the spirit pressing [from] within ... so that the spirit can reveal itself ...
– D.J.A.; Jan 1967, p.46-48
about Bhagavan's 'suffering' during his last days :
[one] who always sees the body as something apart from himself, pain is only a witnessed experience outside his reality. There is pain but somehow it is not his.
– Jan 1967, p.48
