Measuring stick of pain

The Distance Between Pain and Peace: A Spiritual Journey Home

There exists a simple yet profound measuring stick for the suffering we experience in life: the depth of our pain reflects the distance we've created from our true divine nature. This isn't about religion or ritual—it's about understanding who we really are.

The Mirror of Prolonged Suffering

When unhappiness lingers in our lives, becoming not just a passing cloud but a persistent storm, it reveals something crucial about our inner state. We don't need to explain ourselves to others or seek their understanding. Instead, we need only ask ourselves: How much time do I spend in sorrow?

The answer to this question becomes a mirror, showing us clearly how far we've strayed from understanding our authentic self. This distance isn't measured in miles or meters, but in awareness—or rather, the lack of it.

The Two Births We Must Experience

Life offers us two births. The first is given to us—the physical birth through our parents, our entry into this material world. But the second birth? That one we must claim for ourselves.

This second birth requires something that sounds paradoxical: we must die before we can truly be reborn. Not physically, of course, but spiritually. We must allow our first personality—the one built on ego, attachments, and false identifications—to fall away. Only when we shed this borrowed identity can we discover who we've always been beneath it all.

This is the death that leads to true life.

Realizing Your Divine Heritage

When you truly understand—not just intellectually, but in the depths of your being—that you are a child of the divine, everything shifts. This realization isn't about believing in a distant God sitting on a throne somewhere in the clouds. It's about recognizing the divine spark within yourself, the eternal essence that has been there all along, waiting to be acknowledged.

Once this understanding takes root in your consciousness, suffering loses its grip. Pain may still arrive at your doorstep—life guarantees that—but it cannot rob you of your peace. Adversity cannot shake your emotional or physical foundation because you're rooted in something deeper than circumstances.

The Art of Patient Waiting

With this awareness comes a profound gift: patience. Not the gritted-teeth, white-knuckled kind of patience that's really just suppressed frustration, but genuine, peaceful patience. You develop the ability to wait for storms to pass, knowing with quiet certainty that conducive times will come again.

You understand that life moves in seasons, in cycles of challenge and ease, and that neither lasts forever. This understanding doesn't make you passive—it makes you wise.

Living with Balance and Joy

The ultimate fruit of this spiritual awakening is simple yet priceless: you learn to live with balance. A smile finds its natural place on your face, not because life has become problem-free, but because you've discovered a source of joy that circumstances cannot touch.

This is the promise of the second birth—not a life without challenges, but a life where challenges no longer define you. The distance between you and divine consciousness closes, and in that closing, suffering loses its power.

The path is clear: Know thyself. Not the self the world has told you that you are, but the self you've always been—divine, eternal, and already whole.

The Distance Divine

Measure your sorrow, measure your days,

Count every hour spent in the haze,

For every tear that stains your face

Reveals the distance, shows the space.

Between your soul and truth divine,

Between the shadow and the shine,

The more you suffer, more you weep,

The wider grows the chasm deep.

No need to speak, no need to tell,

Your heart already knows too well,

The mirror of your pain will show

How much of your true self you know.

Two births await each living soul,

The first one comes without control,

Through mother's love and father's care,

We enter life, we taste the air.

But second birth? Ah, that's our task,

Behind the face, remove the mask,

The old must die, the false must go,

Only then the real can grow.

Kill the personality you wear,

The borrowed clothes, the learned despair,

Shed the skin of who you're not,

Release the chains, untie the knot.

For you are born of something great,

Divine your essence, divine your fate,

When this truth finally comes to light,

The darkness fades, you own the night.

No sorrow then can make you bend,

No storm can break, no pain can rend,

Adversity may knock and call,

But in your center, you stand tall.

Not moved by what the world can bring,

Not shaken by the stones they fling,

You'll wait with patience, calm and still,

For tides to turn, as tides they will.

Conducive times will come around,

Your feet will find the solid ground,

And through it all, you'll keep your grace,

A gentle smile upon your face.

This is the balance, this the key,

To living life in harmony,

Not victory without a fight,

But peace that holds you through the night.

So close the gap, diminish space,

Return to your original place,

The journey home is yours to make,

A second birth is yours to take.

Measure your sorrow, measure your days,

But know there's always other ways,

The distance tells you where you stand—

So walk back home, take your own hand.

Divine you are, divine you'll be,

The truth was always yours to see,

When understanding finally dawns,

All suffering simply withdraws.

दूरी और दुख

जितना दुख है जीवन में तेरे,

उतनी दूरी है प्रभु से तेरे,

रोज़ गिन ले घड़ियाँ अपने दर्द की,

वो बताएँगी राह तेरी मंज़िल की।

दो जन्म मिलते हैं हर प्राणी को,

पहला माँ-बाप से, दूजा खुद अपने को,

पहले में तन मिलता, साँसें मिलती हैं,

दूजे में आत्मा की, सच्ची हँसी मिलती है।

मगर दूसरा जन्म लेने के पहले,

मरना पड़ता है अहंकार के मेले,

पुरानी पहचान को त्यागना होगा,

झूठे व्यक्तित्व से नाता तोड़ना होगा।

जब समझ आए कि तू ईश्वर का अंश,

तब टूटे सारे दुख के बंध,

जब जान ले अपना असली स्वरूप,

तब मिटे अज्ञान का घना धूप।

फिर विपत्ति आए या आए तूफ़ान,

न डगमगाए तेरा मन, न तेरा ध्यान,

भावनाएँ न हिलें, तन न थके,

धैर्य से राह देखे, समय के फेरे।

प्रतीक्षा करना सीख जाएगा,

बुरा वक्त भी गुज़र जाएगा,

अच्छे दिन फिर लौट आएँगे,

काले बादल छँट जाएँगे।

संतुलन से जीना आ जाएगा,

चेहरे पर मुस्कान सजा जाएगा,

न दुख का भार, न चिंता की रेख,

बस शांति का साम्राज्य, आत्मा की देख।

मापदंड बस यही एक है सरल,

जितना दुख, उतनी दूरी है निरंतर,

पास आ जा अपने मूल स्वभाव के,

मिट जाएगा अंधेरा, सब भ्रम के भाव के।

तू है दिव्य, तू है पूर्ण,

यह सत्य है शाश्वत, यह सत्य है तूर्ण,

जब यह बोध जगे मन में गहरे,

तब दुख रहे न, बस आनंद बहे रे।

किसी को कुछ कहना नहीं है,

किसी से कुछ सुनना नहीं है,

बस अपने को पहचान ले भाई,

यही है असली कमाई, यही है भलाई।

दूसरा जन्म खुद लेना होगा,

पुराने को खुद मरना होगा,

तभी मिलेगी वो शाश्वत शांति,

तभी बसेगी हृदय में भक्ति और क्रांति।

दुख की दूरी को नाप ले तू,

फिर उस दूरी को पाट ले तू,

लौट चल अपने घर को प्यारे,

वहीं मिलेगा सुख सारे।

जितना दुख है जीवन में तेरे,

उतनी दूरी है प्रभु से तेरे,

पास आ जा, दूरी मिटा दे,

आत्मा को पहचान, सत्य को पा ले।