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The Causes of Suffering

Everyone should understand the causes of disorder, displeasure and imbalance in their lives. When the tempted mind denies the dictations of the conscience, a series of mistakes is committed from which you suffer disorder in life. 

You may suffer from a lack of coordination of good thought, word and action.

You may suffer from disorder in the coordination of self, environment and Ideal.

You may suffer from mental imbalance and the feelings of inferiority and superiority.

You may suffer from unpleasant behaviour, a disrespectful attitude and the tug-of-war of interests between associates.

You may suffer from the unholy tendency to condemn others or hamper their respect towards or from others.

You may suffer from an obsession, attachment, greed or madness for others, or for power, position or wealth.

You may suffer from an attitude of self-pity, self-centricity, confinement in self-interest, without the tendency to serve and help others, or from the tendency of pride and self-aggrandizement.

You may suffer from the tendency of ‘go-between’, which means not using the right thing for the right purpose at the right time, breaking a word or promise, hypocrisy, an improper word or promise, improperly using money and materials for selfish interests.

You may suffer from a distorted and damaged libido due to continuous frustration of love and emotion, and repeatedly changing your partner of life. 

You may suffer from no sense of duty and responsibility towards others. 

You may suffer from the tendency to enjoy too much sensual pleasure and comfort, remaining idle.

You may suffer from the tendency to find fault in others, gossiping against everybody without understanding or respect for them. 

Maybe you unnecessarily interfere in others’ affairs, disturbing their lives with wrong suggestions and advice.

You may suffer from bitterness in conjugal life and disorder in family due to the wrong rhythm of life, selfishness and a personality conflict. Parents lose the respect of their children and children go astray without proper guidance or a centre of love. Lives become shattered and scattered. 

Unless you understand and correct all these causes of disorder and disturbance, no spiritual meditations, religious services or yoga can help you. 

If the self is a boat and it is tied up with a rope of these wrong conditions and causes of failure and sufferings, no amount of rowing with spiritual practices and meditation can carry you on the stream towards freedom. At the end of life you will find that you have not actually changed or achieved anything substantial. Despite having followed a Guru, religious path or faith, many suffer this pathetic state of disappointment towards the end of their life. 

When you are responsible for each other, for the order and disorder in your lives, there is no point in blaming others. Everybody should understand where things are going wrong. It is a true Master who, as your best friend or Beloved the Best, can help you understand yourself, clean yourself, free yourself, awaken yourself and give the right direction for adjustment and elevation to bring order into life.

There are common feelings in every life, such as loneliness, disappointment and depression. These feelings may be greater in some lives than others. Apart from these, there are other ‘ghosts’ that haunt human life, feelings of want, fear, unnecessary anxiety, perhaps due to greed and wanting more, and feelings of insecurity. Devotees must be very careful and alert so that these feelings will not haunt them. They can divert their minds towards useful thoughts and ideas, or remain engaged in some useful activity or recreation and find the contact of good friends and devotees who can help them.

Every life has the urge of self-protection, self-preservation and self-procreation. That is the natural order of every life. Through these, man likes to live eternally. That is why all the Prophets and Messengers of God reorient their lives to attain their Reality of life, Eternal Existence, the Supreme State of Realization, their Eternal Soul beyond the body, mind and self at the background of all Existence. Unless devotees attain this Supreme State of their being, they have to undergo different phases of their being and becoming, under different circumstances and conditions, with various relationships, while gathering experience and knowledge in the process of their evolution and spontaneous elevation.

Elevation of life can only happen when the devotee has moral strength and spiritual achievement by acquiring the Holy Spirit in their life. Otherwise, they will struggle very hard to overcome the pull and push of their emotions, greed, influences and the world of attraction and repulsion. Such a life is imprisoned. The devotee must know the many conditions of life’s imprisonment and try to remove these layers of clouds, Maya and illusion. 

Blessed are those who have realized the causes of disorder, imprisonment and bondage in life. 

Blessed are those who have great spiritual strength, through their devotion and faith in their Lord or Master, to come out of chaos and confinement and try to become clean and free. Freedom of self and the soul can make life beautiful with the Holy Spirit and with all the qualities necessary to function rightly in life, love and relations. 

Blessed are those who can, with their conscience and wisdom, clearly visualize the dramas of life around them that can allure, influence, bind or pull them backwards. Thus they become conscious of all the backpulls, diversions and influences, and avoid them. They can live their lives freely to enjoy love, wisdom and the right spirit of elevation to embrace their Supreme Father, their Reality.

Blessed are those who can achieve all the necessary equipment of life and growth and help others to live and grow with service, inspiration and guidance. Thereby, others can make their lives instruments at the hand of their Lord or Master to carry the faith, light, and truth to humanity, their fellow selves, for their Salvation and ultimate realization of their Reality.

Blessed are those whose only purpose of life is to carry out the wishes of their Master or Lord throughout their lives. Blessed are those who find pleasure in doing so with full devotion and faith, to enjoy their self as Universal Love and Light, that holds all in One and finds that One in all. This is the highest order of life.







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  • Gurubaba Ashram
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  • Video Two
    • God's Kingdom
    • Serve
    • Self realisation, fish curry, maddening urge
    • We all say Love is God
    • Our Mission
    • Ocean of Supreme Bliss
    • Pull the lord and his spirit of love within you
    • The vast world of joy within you
    • The age of dynamism
    • Loveism is the answer
    • Bent's Birthday
    • For men, women, devotees of all faiths
  • Video One
    • Environment, life, spirit
    • Remembering Cosmica
    • Five incidents from the life of Thakur
    • About Love
    • There are four things that attack mankind . . .
    • You are that which makes you happy
    • When you close your eyes for meditation . . .
    • About Life
    • Qualities
    • In Search of God
    • On Ideal Life
    • On Meditation and Salvation
    • You are that Spirit of God
    • The Art of Plugging
  • Audio Four
    • Ice melts to water
    • Birthday Speech 1987
    • Symbol of love and truth
    • five channels
    • Reaching Him
    • Knocking & Shocking
    • About God
    • my real friend
    • Carry to Love
    • Whatever you give
    • Reach to the soul
    • Holy Spirit born
  • Audio Three
    • In this world . . .
    • You can find Me
    • God is present
    • Spiritual Practice
    • Speak about space
    • Nothing belongs to me
    • Journey of life
    • You are That
    • Ways of Yoga
    • Spring
    • Spiritual Essence
    • Behaviour
    • Prosperity
    • Cohabitation
    • Oneness
  • Audio Two
    • About God
    • Satsang, Satnam, Satguru
    • The Love
    • You can find Me
    • There is no pinpoint of space that is empty
    • Silence
    • Nature is always bossed by eight angels
    • How one can be happy
    • Meditation
    • Speech to Theosophical Society Canada 12 June 1973
    • Talk 9 March 1997 Canada
    • Talk of Maharaj 29th March 1997
    • Extract from talk of Maharaj about Sree Sree Thakur Anukul Chandra
    • May God work through you
    • Talk of Maharaj 21st April 1985
    • Talking about the Soul
    • Talk of Sree Sree Mentu Maharaj June 1995 Canada
    • The Purpose of Life
    • Dayal Thakur
  • Audio One
    • Raa Dha Soa Mi
    • The Essence of life . . . is to be free
    • 13th September 1992 Speech UK
    • True Monkhood (audio with transcript)
    • The Soul and Angels
    • On Happiness (audio)
    • Talk of Maharaj December 5th 1982, Canada (audio with transcript)
    • On Marriage (audio with transcript)
    • The Beginning of Creations (audio with transcript)
    • The Glory of God (audio with transcript)
  • Bengali and Hindi
    • Nirvana & Mantra (Hindi)
    • Thakur's birthday Birsanagar 1994
    • Day & Night
    • O Thakur
    • Birthday Speech of Maharaj 1983
    • Guru
    • Devotion
    • Saraswati
    • Bengali Speech of Sree Sree Mentu Maharaj, 16th September 1983
    • Bengali Speech 4th May 1983 Jamshedpur
  • Words
    • Nirvana & Mantra
    • I have come not to preach
    • A Monk
    • Rhythm
    • As you sow
    • Chakras
    • God does not care
    • Twelve Angels
    • The Causes of Suffering
    • The Purpose of Meditation
    • Never be Bitter
    • Code of Conduct
    • The Journey to Attain Peace
    • The Tempo of Spiritual Life
    • On Happiness
    • Christmas
    • God
    • On Meditation
    • Angels
  • One-a-day Short Sayings
  • Songs
    • I learnt from my Father
    • O my Lord, where are you?
    • Life is a temporary shelter
    • I always remember you
    • Dayal Thakur
    • The day I came to the feet of my Guru
    • When can I love
    • I am a cultivator
    • Be happy
    • If you forget me
  • Photos
  • Publications
  • Archive
    • Song
    • The Quality of the Holy Spirit
    • Holy Spirit
    • Love
    • Enlightenment
    • One-a-day Short Sayings
  • Five channels