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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
----T.S. Eliot
Our permanent difficulties are birth, death, old age and disease. We are living and yet dying at same time every moment, most of us, however, are only dealing with the difficulties of the moment of the living part, so the difficulties of the moment of the dying part are forgotten or neglected, and they become the permanent difficulties of the living part, too.
Yoga is actually the art of dealing with living and dying at same time. We are not just dealing with the body, breath, energy and mind for the sake of keeping them fit so they stay forever, but to understand all the physical emotional mental problems and difficulties are due to our forgetfulness of our eternal divine nature. This is the permanent difficulties. Yoga practice is to purify ourself to such an extend that our spiritual identity is revealed. (tadaa drashtuh svaroope avasthaanam, Yoga Sutra 1. 3) As long as we remain ignorant of our spiritual nature and identify with the temorary body and mind, we will suffer and never solve their problems.
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If we are able to get over difficulties of dying,then difficulties of the moment will not be difficulties to us any more.
But the problem is, without any difficulties,what our lives will be?
Now I know why they were called parmanent,they will always be there,and help us to realize the truth of life.
All the problems/difficulties/sufferings are there to help us to realize the truth of our self and the world, thats the only reason why they are there, and when we fulfill that purpose, we don't have any problem. Maybe in other people's eyes we still have problem, but we ourself don't see them as problems.
Human want to know all the Facts but don't want to believe and accept the Facts....That's the source of all difficulties!
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