Psychic Pain : The energy which lost its way

Psychic Pain: An energy which lost its way.

Where is the psychic pain generated from?

There was a king named X ruling a kingdom. The kingdom was prosperous and all the people of the kingdom were happy. There was no specific army to protect the kingdom. However, whenever the kingdom was invaded all the people joined together and formed a people’s army to fight the enemies. The army of the kingdom was self sufficient in which each soldier earned his own livelihood in the war free time.

There was another king Y ruling the neighbouring kingdom. He wanted to invade the kingdom ruled by X. He maintained a paid army waiting for a right time for invasion. A newly appointed minister by King Y noticed two unique advantages in the opponent King X army. 1)The army was self-sufficient and never got paid by the King (Unlike King Y 's army which caused lot of financial burden on kingdom). 2) The people’s army was very large when compared to paid army and it used to work cohesively.

The King Y executed a plan given by his minister as a part of his invasion strategy. He sent 100 undercover agents into the enemy’s population. None of these agents had weapons. The duty of each agent was to ask only one question daily to 10 different persons of King X ’s kingdom. The question was “You are serving this Kingdom for so long, what did you receive in reward or return till now?”. Many citizens of the country faced this question from different agents in different occasions. Slowly the people started questioning themselves and questioning each other the same question. Few months passed. A part of the population started believing they had been exploited all these years. This group of people felt like not working for their army.  There was a mutiny in the people’s army. The revolting army declared war against the King X and his people’s army.

The pain is an energy in mutiny. Pain is a part of our own energy . The energy runs each and every vital organs of our body, our mind, our thoughts, emotions. A part of this energy changes its course and goes misaligned with the rest of the energy. This is nothing but a psychic pain.

How is the psychic pain generated? 

When the question was posed repeatedly to the King X soldiers by the enemy agents, an old value of the people’s army, “work to contribute to the country” was replaced by a new value, “work for the returns or rewards”. With the change in the values, the identity of this group has changed from “contributor to the country” to the “consumer in the country”. This change in identity caused change in the perceptions, evaluations, expectations and actions. A part of the people’s army separated to form a rebellion. The people’s army and the rebellion army have everything in common except the identities which they were serving. The identity as a national (people's army) is much larger and powerful than an individual (rebellion army) . The individual self is always concerned about its survival. The threat to the survival is coupled with pain. When the identity of the person shifts towards the nationalism, the importance of the self comes down. When the self is lost, fear and pain are lost.

How to deal with the psychic pain?

It is important to know what we should not do to the pain than what we should do to it.

When the King X found that there was mutiny in the army. He wanted to suppress the mutiny by overpowering it. A wise minister told “If we want to over power the rebellion we need equal number of soldiers to be recruited against the rebellion. A fraction of our men should be fielded against another fraction of our men. Whoever wins, in both the case we will be the losers.” Then The king X executed few steps as advised by his minister. He caught hold of all the enemy agents and jailed them. He sent a message to the rebellion group, that their every wish will be fulfilled in a span of 3 months. The revolt softened down. The King X sent a team of 100 agents under cover whose duty is to remind the revolting soldiers daily about the invaluable contributions they made for the country and invisible rewards the country has given them like peace, harmony, brother hood. The agents repeated a question daily “Don’t we have enough? Do we really need surplus? In a span of three months all the soldiers faced this question several times. Gradually they felt that they already had enough. They rejoined the people’s army.

Pain is nothing but a fragment of energy revolting against us. Suppressing or fighting against pain is like our energy fighting against our energy. If we fight it becomes more strong .We will lose energy from both the fronts. Inspite of fighting the pain, just acknowledge its presence and give it some time to settle.

When the enemy agents questioned the soldiers repeatedly, the feel of lacking something started in the soldiers. When the soldiers posed the same question to themselves, that feel got established itself as a pain and found its own reasons.  The uniqueness of the pain body is that it starts with one reason. Once it establishes, it finds new reasons to establish itself more. Each reason for the pain is like a root for a tree. The root cannot survive without a tree and tree cannot survive without the root. Separating the “feel of pain” from its “reasons” can break the vicious cycle of the pain- reason loop. In the other words whenever we have pain we should just focus on the feel of pain not on the reason for the pain. Gradually the pain dies out when it is cut off from its roots.

We find rich people sitting safely in the middle of the country complaining and questioning about what the country gave them. At the same time thousands of the soldiers on the border die quietly saluting the national flag without any complains. What is the reason? The reason is we are surrounded by hundreds of enemy agents which establish pain – reason loop. Ads, media, people around us, their life styles make us believe that we will be more happy and complete if we get something more. They play the role of enemy agents who reinforce the Pain – reason loop.

Reinforcing our incompleteness daily may motivate us to fulfil the goals, however it may also establish a pain – reason loop. Pain has power in it. A controlled pain helps us in the run, an uncontrolled one will make us burn.

Yogic science says the deeper truth is that “we are already and always complete”. The superficial truth is “fulfilling a desire makes us complete.” Pain- reason loop reinforces our incompleteness. It won’t let us look towards the deeper truth. Meditation and deep introspection can only make us experience our completeness. Completeness and pain never coexist. Pain is an energy which lost its way. If we show it the light of awareness, it corrects back its way to become a part of our energy.