Saturday, February 28, 2015

Explore the implicit meaning of happiness



Who does not want to be happy?  We all are very much greedy to remain always be in a happy mood. But the temperament swings your mood like a pendulum and you are compelled to get distracted from happiness and become sad. Despite our longing to search happiness, most people pander to the desires of darkness and suffering either because of their deeds, actions and negative thoughts or they are being guided by others to follow the path of thorns.  Now, when they somehow manage to come out of this phase and get some small installments of happiness in their lives, they want to cling to the same.  They do not want to lose that moment of happiness at any cost.  Even someone based on their rich inheritance and family background has not experienced a pang of sufferings, remember, the same can visit them at any moment as an intruder to trouble just to offset the ephemeral  happiness.

Most of us always want that our list of desires should be fulfilled as if it is our right.  But such aspirations are never fructified; rather it is like an assumptive wish.  So, when you seek happiness to get the same at the cost of the fulfillment of various desires and not able to achieve, you automatically invite sufferings.  The unhappiness sequence of your life, your deeds, your thoughts and your clinging to lust only force you to come out from the happiness mode. When you are pervaded  by many desires, knowing  well that many of them are beyond your reach to accomplish or fulfill, still you chase, as if you  run  in a dark tunnel with  an unabated hope. Your physical and mental strength to search happiness is then abated by sufferings.

The human being is subject to mood changes and sometimes behaves very calm and quiet swallowing the grief arises out of  the constraints in life and some other times, shows completely impulsive attitude to those situations. His moods are changed when he is not able to obtain the desired results out of his wish.  At that point, he feels very unhappy and downhearted.  Since, his latent wishes have not been fulfilled; he becomes completely dissatisfied and frustrated. Of course, when desires are getting satisfied, it brings a momentary satisfaction, but the same is not perpetual.  This type of happiness may take you in a state of ecstasy, but immediately after the enjoyment, it looms you into depression. 

Basically, the mood changes because of various ups and downs sequences in the life.
Now, if you completely detach yourself from the fulfillment of your wishes, you will be enlaced neither with the happiness nor with the frustrations. When you are detached, both the sequences of happiness and distress will not drift you and make you mental  imbalance and so, ultimately you will remain calm. You will not get upset by the onslaught of situations.  You will be able to solidify your character's strength and become steadfast as if, you are unaffected by the factors, which cause your anxieties, tension, fear, despondency and imbalance. You will be able to maintain an impeccable standard of mind power. Detachment must be one of your essential qualities of your desires to remain most of the time in the happiest realm.  The state of complete desirelessness is latent in everyone, but we do not want to visualize its power just not to lose the glittering and gleeful sequences of our lives. Once you able to get detached from your desire, you reach  the stage of wanting nothing and your inner sense will make you enlightened and you will be able to taste the sweet fragrance of the real happiness of life, which is not based on the sensual fulfillment of various objects of the world, but the same is based on your achieving the knowledge of self –realization.  

One thing you must know that only desirelessness cannot yield the positive power of happiness.  Although it saves you from various sufferings when you  chase your wish-list, but if you want to enjoy true happiness, synchronization of your mind and transcending the consequences of your inherent feeling of not achieving your various wishes is a must.  How then the true happiness is possible in life?  It is only possible when as a human being, you will be able to adjust yourself with the others and the prerequisite of this adjustment involves forgetfulness and love.  From here, you will be able to learn the technique to transform yourself into an eternal spirit to give less importance to you and more to others. When you are able to embrace upon this concept of living, you will be able to link to God-realization so as to remember Him in all your endeavors and receive unfading happiness.  The God oriented happiness is achievable even you are a family man.  God-realization is not that spiritual high level thought and in fact, each of us has this power; only thing, we are not exercising the same as we are so occupied and get drowned in the joy and sorrow syndrome.  It is extremely difficult to become expressible happy without reminiscing the presence of God with you all the time mentally.

If you are able to achieve happiness which comes through remembering the presence of God, the same is worth all the physical and mental sufferings, you get in this world.  You will feel that you have not suffered at all.

Otherwise also, if you are not God-realized, you can control your mind through meditation, yoga, and Sadhna to that extent that nothing can create agonies for you irrespective of your being engulfed with pain or sufferings.  As a passing phase, you will accept the same without remaining unhappy. When one becomes God-realized, everything else is meaningless.  The happiness then is self-sustained, perpetual, unfading and free from compulsive of a dirty mind.  It is this happiness you must hunch,which will ultimately take you to the path of divinity and there after life will be always in a happy mood.

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