OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE TRIPLE SUFFERING 
Apart from the fear of death, human beings fear suffering. There is one universal principle that governs all of us. Let us call it the pleasure-pain principle. Every human being wants pleasure just as nobody wants pain. We chase happiness from birth to death, and we run at the thought of misery or suffering.
Today, the virus has caused tremors throughout the globe because it threatens us with suffering. It threatens us with physical pain as we see people suffer in hospital beds. It also makes our mind miserable as the thought of being isolated and quarantined if we are infected—all this troubles us. We are not so bothered if it happens to Jones in San Francisco, or Wang Mei in China or Ramachandra in Delhi. “It should not happen to me. I should not be infected. I don’t want to suffer and die.”
If we look at the misery that is being caused, we can call it triple suffering. We imagine the suffering of the body, we are stressed out about the suffering of the mind, and the ego is agonized at the thought that I will be tested positive. It is this triple suffering of the body, mind, and ego, that causes fear and makes us suffer.
If we look deeper, what do we fear? We fear physical pain,