Sutra 5-1: Pain, Pleasure. Many minds. How many minds do we have, well, only one, but with many modifications, some thoughts bring us pain and some thoughts bring us pleasure. But, watch out, sometimes a moment of pleasure can end up been the pain of a life time, or the other way around, some experiences are seem to be painful at the beginning but leave us with long lasting peace. The mind has five distinctive modifications of thoughts which we can simplify in to two: Selfish thought and Selfless thoughts. Selfish thought will cause you pain and all Selfless thoughts will bring you peace and pleasure. We all agreed that loving somebody or something it is a pleasurable feeling, but what if that very same love brought you lots of unhappiness, hatred and jealousy; The answer is very simple, that type of love is not pure, that type of love is base on expectations in return, if financial, physical, or emotional gratification is expected, then it is Selfish love, that?s way it is causing you pain. Love is an energy without condition, in other words love is unconditional. Any Selfless thought is born out of love, any selfish thought is born out of fear. Now, we all agreed that a thought of anger is not very pleasant, it is painful, but, what if for example a teacher get very angry with one of his/her students for not studying and applying his/her self. Although that type of anger may cause somebody to fell bad at the beginning, ultimately it help that person to correct his/her self and lead a better life, the anger of a selfless person have no personal motives behind it. Whatever the thought is if the thought is selfless it can never bring pain to nobody, specially not to you. So the key here is to cultivate selfless thoughts by analyzing all our motives, be completely selfless in what you think, be completely selfless in what you say and be completely selfless in what you do. Practice this technique daily and it will not only bring you pleasure, but it will bring you eternal peace.

Sri Sutrananda