How to end suffering

Dear Readers,

 Are you sufferying in one way or the other? You can end it. It is our common human experience that where there is a body, there is bound to be suffering. This has been  proven time and time again. Birth, illness, aging and dying is experienced by all body forms, irrespective of social status, race, color  etc. All body forms cannot fail to pass through the above mentioned suffering. How then can a body ever experience eternal joy, devoid of suffering except as something else apart from the body?

    Our body is acquired from a drop of human protoplasm as Dr. Wayne Dyer once said and which modern science affirm. We started this body journey as one cell and today the body has grown into a complex organism. This body is not who we are. who we are is THAT which acquired the body from the beginning. The question we may ask here is, who is this SELF that acquired this body?

  Ramana Maharshi, a respected Indian saint called this THE SELF. the self is never acquired, it does not know birth or death, it is indifferent to aging and illness. THE SELF is eternal. this is that which acquired a body upon arrival on this physical plane. For THE SELF to experience itself on this plane, there is need for a body. Unfortunately, due to ignorance, the self identify itself with the body it has acquired and belief that He is that body and an ego or personality is created. This becomes the source of suffering. When the self finally comes to realize that he is different from the body suffering comes to an end and the body can now be used according to divine plan.

This is how one gets to the state of eternal happiness. The Self is the awareness center. It is the witness of the action of the body. It is most likely that if you are not always happy, you have mis- identify who you truely are. Ramana Maharshi recommended that we find out who we are by asking the following question; WHO AM I?

Doing it consistently will result in our liberation from the bondage of mis-identification with our body form. This is how we end suffering for ever.

        Tasha Abdou.

- Source: Self Enquiry by Sri Ramana Maharshi.