Why do we choose to suffer silently? || Acharya Prashant (2015)

Question: Why do we choose to suffer in silence, to not fight back? Does all frustration need to be voiced?

Speaker: If you will not suffer, how you will write this question? If you will not ask this question, how will this form get filled? If your form does not get filled, what will happen to your participation? What will I speak on? Your suffering is very important to keep your mind moving. If you do not suffer, things will come to a standstill. Suffering gives you a lot of food for thought, and lot of ammunition for violence.

“I am suffering so I get the right to fire here and there, to shoot down a few people.” Why? “My suffering has earned me a license to be a little revengeful.” Getting it? Something has to keep happening. If you will not be in pleasure, then you will have to be in silence.

So, what does pleasure take away? Silence. And what does pain take away? Silence. They might seem like opposites, but both pleasure and pain are good devices to keep you away from silence.

You go to a house where a kid has been born, and you go to a house where just now somebody has died. There would be one great overarching commonality. What is that? Lot of noise, lot of turbulence, lot of people, and movement. So, birth gives you opportunities to make lot of noise. Death also gives you the opportunities to make a lot of noise. In either case, what is lost?