Question: A lot of saints seem to have gone through physical suffering. Do Enlightened Ones experience the pain?
Babaji:
For one that has attained, any time pain is in the body, the pain is there, but the attention is not much there on the pain. For the Yogi only the smallest amount of consciousness is on the mind so that the brain stays alive and thus the body stays alive. But the majority of consciousness is on God.
So thus in the story of the Ramayana when Lakshmana was wounded, Sri Rama cried. This is a very peculiar thing - it is an outer expression only; actually the Yogi Himself doesn't suffer.
