“First Nobel Truth Says You Will Suffer”
In an enlightening event of “Festival of Wellbeing”, conducted by BW Wellbeing World at Imperial, a renowned wellness and karma speaker, Suzy Singh addressed the audience while speaking on the topic: ‘Shattering Karmic and Untruths’.
Gathering audience’s attention to the speech, Singh starts with a little story of a toddler and his mother who is taking her child to a ‘Doctor Uncle’ to get him vaccinated, but instead of letting him know the truth, she tells the child that he would get a lollipop from the doctor. She refers the story in the context of how a child’s relationship with the truth starts to get distorted from the very initial stage of life.
“The first untruth that we have all been fed is that we are here to chase happiness”, stated Singh. She explained her statement and said that if we had been here to get happiness then Gautam Buddha’s first noble truth would have been “you will find happiness”, instead of his actual noble truth that is, “You will suffer”.
The truth is that one will suffer after losing people whom they love, one suffers because of their unfulfilled desires and one will suffer because they will have to deal with people who they dislike and all this keeps us away from experiencing happiness. She said, “The truth is that we are going to suffer in ways that we cannot imagine.”
“Every human who incarnates, has come here to be able to purify his consciousness and to be able to do that, to learn and to grow and to give up your traumas and move into your satvik mind, you have to do a lot of work,” said Singh. She said that one has to fight his own nature and poor habits, desires, expectations and the recurring patterns in the life.
She talks about the second untruth that she puts light on, is the blessings that we get from our elders when they say “Sada Sukhi Raho”, which means always be happy. Singh said that the context of ‘sukhi’ comes from the Puranic context, where sukhi was name of the river. She said that we should learn to be truly happy, one has to learn from the flow of river, which continues to move forward effortlessly and gracefully despite the hardships in its way. She explains the true meaning of the blessings and said that it is a prayer for us to cultivate and develop the equanimity to move the difficult phases of life.
Coming to the third untruth of life, she said, “we have been conditioned to fear suffering to escape fearing, but without churning the milk there is no butter.” She said that suffering is part of life and without it, one cannot grow and all the life’s hidden messages will be kept unsolved.
Unravelling the fourth untruth, Singh talked about relationships. She said, “Love from the family of birth is not an entitlement, it is a karmic evolution. In the same context, she said that marriage is a school of understanding and that one is going to learn to develop fortitude, forbearance, patience, empathy.
Concluding her speech, she talks about the fifth and the final untruth and stated that people usually wonder that If they do not receive love then how can they give love to someone and addressing this wonder she said, “Karmic insights inform us that when we give precisely what we don’t have, we immediately start to build that currency in our lives.” In this process, one will be able to learn to love oneself.
