Transform Suffering into Bliss - Spiritual and Religious Suffering
One persons suffering is another man’s bliss
A lot of people have huge suffering and problems in their lives, especially with circumstances that are out of their control or with confusions or losses of some kind. Your heart may repeatedly ache and then break before becoming emerged in deeper levels of Love. Spiritual people are heart broken people. Becoming spiritual means becoming selfless. So in effect you are experiencing a lot of hits to your personality followed by a lot of loss, such as loss of desires, layers of personality and karmas etc. It is as though you are being hit and punched all the time, and whichever direction you turn, you experiencing a dead end. Your life may become more difficult as you go on. The process of spirituality may include some suffering as you change and become more spiritual and loving. Some people believe that life itself is suffering. It may feel this is true and the only peace you get is when you are asleep or in deep meditation.
The best way to transcend all these illusions is to dedicate all your suffering to God as form of karma yoga. Dedicate your suffering to God as an act of Love, as if to say, “I am willing to suffer for you”. Then God will be impressed. Then it is not your suffering anymore. It becomes His suffering. You then realize it is not your problem anymore. It is His problem. If you do this then you will be taking a huge step towards God, and in response God will take 99 steps towards you. This is a way of trading in your suffering for bliss. God takes your suffering that you dedicate to him and replaces it with divine bliss. Since it becomes His suffering, he may burn the causes in his divine fire of Love. God will come close to you.
The more you dedicate your suffering to God, the more bliss he gives you. Dedicating your suffering to God puts you on the fast track in spirituality. God takes your suffering and exchanges it with bliss. If you want something you have to give up something first. It is like doing a deal with God. One man’s suffering in anther man’s bliss. Since your problems are not your problems anymore you experienced a terrific amount of happiness and divine bliss in return for trading in your suffering. There is nothing wrong with you or your life. You do not have any problems. They are all his problems. It is not your suffering. It is his suffering.
