The Origin of Suffering

Genesis 3:16-19

“To the woman he said, 'I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food.' And to Adam, the Lord said, 'Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it.'”

Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (Four Noble Truths)

“This is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering, not getting what one desires is suffering, in brief the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.”

Bhagavad Gita 2:20

“The soul is neither born, and nor does it die. It is without birth, eternal, immortal, and ageless. It is not destroyed when the body is destroyed. Just as a person sheds old clothes and wears new clothes, similarly the soul casts off its old body and attains a new body.”

Job 14:1

“Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble. They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.”

Quran 2:155-157

“And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient, who, when disaster strikes them, say, 'Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return.'”

Avesta Yasna 30

“Now at the beginning when the Two Spirits came together, they created life and non-life, and at the end evil and good shall be distinguished. The wise chose what is right, not so the foolish.”