'The Self doesn’t cause suffering. It is the ego that causes s | تفحص خویش

"The Self doesn’t cause suffering. It is the ego that causes suffering. ‘I am so and so.’ When the ego decides it is ‘someone’, suffering starts. When you are ‘I’ alone, there is no suffering. ‘I’ becomes ‘Tim’ and suffering begins. You wake up in the morning. Who wakes up? Tim wakes up. The first breath of the morning will wake up Tim. Then, all manifestation will appear and simultaneously with it suffering will arise. Let ‘I’ stay by itself and you will not suffer. Suffering is always related to other things, other circumstances that belong to the past. Suffering is connected with the past."

H.W.L. Poonja, #Papaji (20th century Indian Advaita mystic)