Yes, it is painful, and yet liberates. It is painful to the bound individual, because it does not want to free itself from bondage, since bondage itself has been taken as a necessary joy. We are in a state of bondage, but we do not think that it is worth throwing it down in one second, like that. We have got our own belongings, including this body. They are a source of bondage, but we would not like to throw them away.
Bondage also becomes part and parcel of our existence.
So, whatever is there to which we get habituated, that looks normal to us, though it is not actually normal. There are people who are permanently sick. They are never all right. Always there is some temperature, some stomachache, some lack of appetite for the whole day, and for months together, and that becomes a normal way of thinking. They do not know what health is.