Through the Pain

Jacob Epstein’s sculpture ‘Jacob and the Angel’

There is a cruelty and morbidity in any development, in any exit from a condition of  rest and immovability. Any ascension from the tamas should pass through a pain of the rajas. The heroic (vira) beginning is the cruel beginning. Movement with effort is already painful. And so before the most higher displays of spiritual life. And that who wants a fulfilment of destiny is obliged to accept a cruelty and a pain. If I cannot chain myself in the reservation, I should accept that beats me to revive anew. Same who does not want any cruelty and a pain, - does not want to move and to develop up, and wants that his life would remains in a condition of tamas and that anything new did not arise. Pain and suffering are the necessary accompaniment of the personality’s attempt at self-fulfillment. That transfers pain to a greater depth, to freedom which is prior to being and deeper than it. Such is an inevitable metaphysical conclusion.