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Why did I set myself on fire?
Why this urge to understand the depth of anguish more and more?
Why did I dig my own brain?
Why did I need this self-inflicting pain?
My mind had to burn to analyse and understand the causes
Of agony of all life's pauses
I walked with people who underwent the ravages of cold
My heart needed to bleed to know the distress of the world
My eyes had to shed tears to clean
All the dirt accumulated in my body and make it gleam
My soul needed the fire of pain to purify me
From arrogance and ego that was a picture of me
To understand the philosophy of life
I needed to go to the roots of strife
To become a complete person
I needed to take the help of reason
After all this is verified
Now that I am purified
I know what living is all about, what humility is
What pain is, what compassion is
My mind has been sanitized
My world has been glorified
This suffering only brought me gain
I can never be dirty again!
Yes, now I am an agnipuneetha!
((Agni= fire, Puneetha= a woman purified (by))
(Based on my painting with the same title)
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Copyright © 2011
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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Meaningful suffering, simply stated, carries us forward. Consciousness and life arise out of it. Meaningful suffering is transformational and to the extent that it is transformational we can speak of it as being a suffering that is clean burning. Meaningless suffering, by contrast is dirty burning. With meaningless suffering, life is left to smolder away unproductively. Meaningless suffering neither heals nor transforms because in it one is necessarily separated from the life process itself. One is separated from the healing and transformational process of self-organizing Reality by one's wrongful clinging to mere illusions of meaning. Meaningless suffering, to put it somewhat differently, carries us away from the real work we should be doing. It diverts our attention from the real developmental work at hand. Tears, for instance, are not always clean burning. Contrary to the assumptions of most, tears do not necessary indicate that a process of transformation and healing characteristic of meaningful suffering is underway. Tears may have nothing whatsoever to do with transformation and everything to do with an unproductive descent by way of the controlling ego into an illusion of helplessness and self-pity. Such suffering, no matter how intense and passionate, will give birth to nothing; for it is the emotional equivalent of spinning one's wheels on ice or in mud without traction, even as one pushes the gas pedal through the floor, as it were.
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