Pain Belongs to the Body. Suffering Begins with Identification — Ashtavakra Made This Clear.
Pain belongs to the body.
It is physical.
Natural.
Unavoidable.
Suffering does not belong to the body.
Suffering begins with identification.
The moment pain is claimed as “I am in pain”,
the moment the body is taken as the self,
a simple sensation turns into psychological bondage.
This distinction is central to Ashtavakra’s teaching.
He never denied pain.
He exposed identification.
The body may age.
It may weaken.
It may experience discomfort.
But suffering arises only when awareness forgets itself
and collapses into form.
When there is pure observation,
pain remains pain —
without a sufferer.
This is not philosophy.
It is not belief.
It is direct seeing.
Most people want scriptures to agree with them.
Very few want to see for themselves.
Ashtavakra was not teaching repetition of words.
He was pointing to freedom through intelligence.
Truth is not ancient or modern —
only interpretations are.
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