Sri Ramana Maharishi's talks on Suffering :

SUFFERING : 1.

D.: Can a yogi know his past lives?

M.: Do you know the present life so well that you wish to know the past.

Find out the present life, then the rest will follow.

Even with our present limited knowledge we suffer so much.Why do you wish

to burden yourself with more knowledge and suffer more?

source: Talk 170



SUFFERING : 2.

D.: If a person whom we love dies, grief results. Shall we avoid such grief by either loving all alike or by not loving at all?

M.: If one dies, it results in grief for the other who lives.

The way to get rid of grief is not to live.

 Kill the one who grieves.

Who will remain then to suffer?

The ego must die.

That is the only way.

The two alternatives amount to the same state.

When all have become the one Self, who is there to be loved or hated?

source: Talk 252



SUFFERING : 3.

D.: Why does a man suffer misery?

M.: Misery is due to multifarious thoughts.

If the thoughts are unified and centred on a single item there is no misery, but happiness is the result.

Then, even the thought, “I do something” is absent; nor will there be an eye on the fruit of action.

source: Talk 371

D- Devotee;  M- Sri Ramana Maharishi.

Sri Ramana Maharishi's talks with devotees