Pain...!!!

Oxford Dictionary defines the word 'pain' as "a strongly unpleasant bodily sensation such as being caused by illness or injury".

Where as Wikipedia tells me that it is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage."

Let me cut-it-out. Enough of these boring definitions. Rite?

I read it somewhere that "Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you alone, then it is MADNESS or INSANITY."

v     Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. -- C.S. Lewis

v     A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a child who could not breathe when it was born. In order to make it breathe the doctor gave it a slight blow. The mother must have thought the doctor cruel. But he was really doing the kindest thing possible. As with newborn children the lungs are contracted, so are our spiritual lungs. But through suffering God strikes us in love. Then our lungs expand and we can breathe and pray. --Sadhu Sundar Singh

v     If you suffer, thank God! -- It is a sure sign that you are alive. --Elbert Hubbard

v     Adversity introduces a man to himself. –Unknown

v     Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you respond to it. – Unknown

v     Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it. --Emmet Fox

v     Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. --Charles Dickens

      I say: These are some of the very strong & influential individual's sayings (derived from their own experience) about 'PAIN'. Now why do we have to believe in them since we ourselves had tasted the 'sweetness' of pain through out our lives & still do not know how long we may have to continue tasting it. Where does it come from - where does it take us - how to overcome it...??? 

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      Where does it come from:- as 'they' say scientifically, is it an electrical signal interpreted by our brain caused from an outcome of a definite action happened at a particular interval of time in a specific circumstance...???

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    Where does it take us:- from the present level of maturity & self-understanding to a higher level of the same...???

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     How to overcome 'PAIN':- it is purely my understanding & you are completely free to differ. In Islam we have been told to believe in Al Qadar – The Divine Preordainment – which is the 6th Pillar of Iman (firm belief) – It says: "All good things (Khair) & bad things (Sharr) comes from a single source - God, the Almighty - whom we call but in different names as GOD, Allah, Father of the Son, Yeshwe, Brahma, supreme being, cosmic energy, ultimate level of consciousness, etc. 

      Those who believe the things happening to them (whether it be good / bad) is due to a specific reason, blended with a very definite purpose, filtered with the purest form of hope; No action can cause them Pain & no Pain can reach their inner soul...!!!