I have been always pinged and disturbed by this single question “Why is there suffering in the world?” In our country and probably every developing country it is not difficult to find small children in rags begging on the roadside; women in torn out clothes carrying their infant and begging for the sake of the infant; physically men, women and sadly even children begging. In Mumbai, it goes to another level. Slums and Mumbai go hand in hand. It’s not unimaginable to find a tea stall in a half broken shop next to a posh Coffee shop powered with Wi-Fi. I mean, if you are sensitive enough, you could find pain and suffering people all around you. There is so much of disparity in the quality of life, income of people. And this is not limited to our city and country. It is spread across continents with a varying degree of severity.
The very sight of these things fill my mind with all kinds of questions like why these people, Is it a result of their sin, result of bad karma blah blah...many a times it has jolted my faith system. I started wondering if there was anybody like “the creator” or “God” protecting the world and its people. The impact was stronger because I felt there was very little I could do help these people. I mean for days, my mind would be occupied by these thoughts; I started sensing negativity in everything and everybody. I had reached a point where it was getting difficult to focus on work as I felt it was all useless. But there was one more part of my brain which controlled me and I happen to read one of the interviews in the newspaper. The celebrity was at one point of time was in the similar situation and the solution was amazing. The celebrity came up with an answer that “We are too inexperienced” to ask and understand the question. It struck me like a flash. It is so very true. I gave some more thought and realised that it is this pain, the suffering, the inequality which forms the dynamics of life. This is what keeps the life rolling. It is these feeling of pain, the suffering which forces us to think for a solution, ways to make life better. I felt everybody comes here with a job to do and that is to minimize the inequality, the pain, the suffering as much as possible.
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