Pleasure And Pain

Pleasure and pain are themselves illusions. The stage beyond both pleasure and pain is Gnanam or Wisdom. Your heart reflects pleasure and pain. Your past actions are the reason for joy and sorrow.

To face the consequences of past actions, either the person does a lot of good deeds, or gets frustrated with life and becomes spiritual.

It is like, if you are fed up with sweets continuously, over a point of time, you start hating that taste. And will be prepared to bite into even a raw chilly.

So, too, someone who has been deprived of sweets, will nourish a burning desire for sweets.

Self Realization involves knowing the presence of the Lord in everyone and realizing that the same soul exists within everyone. When everyone realizes this, our karmas will disintegrate and we will be freed from rebirths.