*an inspired thought.
We remember Him in pain more often.
We remember Him in missing a human.
We remember Him in that vacuum. In that absence.
In that job we couldn't get.
In that wealth that couldn't be ours.
In that opportunity we just missed.
In that past we miss.
In that time we don't think would happen.
We remember Him in pain more often.
We remember Him.
In what was said to us.
In what we couldn't change.
In that regret of what we could change but didn't.
In what we didn't say.
In what we didn't do.
Or in what we did say and what we did do.
In our failures.
In our mistakes.
In our shortcomings.
In what could have been or should have been.
We remember Him in pain more often.
We remember Him helplessly and timelessly when we fall for what is beautiful, just, powerful, wealthy and knowledgeable in this world.
We forget that these beauties, the justs, the wise, the powerful, the weathy and the knowledgeable are nothing but mere figments of who He is.
They are the 'effect' in which we helplessly surrender our hope of living the Cause.
In all of the absences,
In all of the manifestations in worldly things,
Somewhere deep down, we realize.
We realize the Realisation of Our Yearning.
Our innate yearning that rests not well with anything but the Cause.
Thus, we remember Him in pain more often.
For pain bursts open the realities of illusions and obsessions.
For pain dissolves our hope in what was just a mirage.
For pain realigns us back to what our hearts were originally seeking.
We come home, when at the end of the day, tired and helpless, we surrender back to the Yearning within.
We come home when we stop obsessing after His manifestations on earth. We come home when His manifestations on earth become a means to be with Him. We come home when we break the idols of worshipping worldly manifestations - driven by the Yearning for Him.
And pain. Pain brings us back home.
Now I know why we remember Him in pain more often. His remembrance in pain. A step closer to Him. to Home.
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