We generally believe that suffering results either from past thoughts and actions either in this life or from a previous life. As long as it catches a man in the phenomenal world of transient objects and appearances and becomes attached to them, he has no escape from suffering.

The Vedic religion did not focus on suffering initially, but upon securing peace and happiness in the mortal world with the help of Gods in heaven and patrons upon earth through rituals and sacrifices. For that knowledge of the Vedas, virtuous conduct and obligatory duty are the keys. According to Hinduism, “suffering is an inescapable and integral part of life. The purpose of religious practice and various schools of Hinduism is to resolve human suffering that arises from samsara, which is a specific sense means the cycle of births and deaths and in a general sense, transient life.

By: Saman
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