About the equality of pain and pleasure and the justice of nature.
The fundamental law in the "justice of nature" is to maintain the equilibrium between the dualities, like life and death, day and night, sleep and awareness, positive and negative, male and female, and so forth. Therefore the duality of pain and pleasure is subject to the same law. Pleasure is experienced in order to balance out the exact amount of pain one has experienced and stored in his memory. No more and no less. Whether you are a king or a beggar, the justice of nature meets out with exact and equal measure. Those who are unaware of this fundamental law try hard and senselessly to obtain a bigger share of pleasure which is a futilely impossible task and the beginning and cause of oppression to oneself and mankind. Humans prefer happiness and pleasure, and dislike pain and sorrow. All their activities are aimed to obtain happiness and pleasure more than pain and sorrow. But now at this very outset let us make one point very clear. To experience happiness and pleasure more than its counterpart i.e. pain and sorrow is an impossible undertaking because nature, or better “the justice of nature”, makes us to experience both states in equal measure, whether you are a king or a beggar, whether you are in a “paradise” or in a “hell”. This justice is so perfect that it is not possible to experience on of the two states more than the other. Happiness and pleasure are experienced in order to balance out the exact proportion of pain and sorrow one has experienced. This is the law of nature (i.e. justice of nature) in order to establish the state of equilibrium. In other words, the amount of attachment we give to a certain object will turn to sorrow in exactly the same proportion when we loose that object. The beggar looks at the king and thinks that the king experiences more happiness then himself. And so also the king looks at the beggar and thinks that the beggar experiences more sorrow than him. This is simply an illusion rooted in ignorance and educational upbringing. Understanding the above mentioned facts will transform you to a new being and give you real inner peace. This illusion of thinking that one can obtain pleasure and happiness more than its counterpart i.e. sorrow and pain is the actual cause of wars, oppression, murder, theft, etc., in short, any undesirable activity which you do not like to happen to you. This illusion is also the cause of so many senseless activities that mankind is engaged in and which will result in its annihilation if it does not change the way of its living and thinking. In this regard, the following parable of “A man digging the ground for water” is appropriate:
A man digs the ground with great effort and much sweat in the hope to reach water. But if he would know for certain at the very beginning that there is no water beneath the ground he is digging, then he certainly would not exert his power to dig the ground. Ignorance is the source of hope. If we are 100 percent sure of something, then “hope” has no meaning. Hope becomes meaningful only if we are not certain about something. In the above parable, the effort to dig the ground is similar to the effort of men to obtain the pleasures of life. To know with certainty that there is no water beneath the ground he digs refers to the understanding that pleasure and pain are experienced in equal measures. To abstain or loose the power for digging refers to abstain from senseless activities that are done in the hope to obtain pleasure more than pain.
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