Who
does not want to be happy? If you are able to identify even a poor fellow who
does not have any shelter, clothes and no provision of two times of food, he
too has a tremendous hunch or desire to become happy. There are people who are poor, stay in a one room house,
somehow manage to earn a few thousands and discharge their worldly
responsibilities and feel happy whatever minimum they have. They don’t grumble,
don’t mutter about their poor conditions and they always laugh. They believe in
a theory, “If you cannot cure, you endure.” Psychologically, all of us want more and more
comforts in our lives. We always search for various avenues that will make us
jubilant. Most of the people spend a
considerable time on mental masturbation how to be happy perpetually. Despite
their longings, they are always drenched in one or the other kind of
sufferings. If somehow they receive the blessings of happiness by God grace, it
does not make them happy as they want the same perpetually. No one likes to
face sufferings, it comes as an inevitable outcome of very many circumstances in
which neither you have any control nor you can impose any restriction.
Most
of us seek happiness through the fulfillment of various wishes, but such inclination
is not always guaranteed. When you chase
your desires to become happy, you may not get it all the time, as
metaphorically the bright sun is also eclipsed
by dark clouds many times. During this
intermittent stage, you feel anxious, perturbed and sad which deprives you from
happiness. All the sufferings are the
derivatives of your non-fulfillment.
When you have multifarious desires, you seek the pleasure of the world
with abundance. This enthusiasm to
receive happiness only brings sufferings. Human beings are subject to change in
conditions. The impulsive behavior
arises when you do not have any control on your mood. At some point, you feel happy and at some
other times, you feel gloomy and become sadist and downhearted. These mood swings favorably, if desires are
fructified and if not, then it brings sufferings. When you are satisfied, it
gives a momentary happiness, but it is not a long lasting. Immediately after that, you may be engulfed
with anxieties. Your mood can swing your behavior. If you want to be happy all
the time, you must learn the techniques to ascertain nihilism in everything. If
you don’t have any longing to receive any extraordinary materialistic comforts,
say you are not crazy to stay in a palatial house, you have no greed for costly
wardrobe, gadgets or you don’t have desire for gold and silver jewelry and also
you don’t have any greed to dine in swanky eateries, then you are not bothered
about your sensual comforts. So, why you
will be afflicted with painstaking situations? When there are no painful
situations, there are no sufferings. And
in the absence of sufferings, you are always happy. In reality, of course, it
does not happen. Desire is a wicked
friend of yours. It leads you to
illusion. Under this illusory influence,
you get addicted for greed inviting pains. On the contrary, less desire or no
desire makes you like a rock. You are
then neither moved by pleasure nor by sorrows. You are not upset by the
onslaught of the opposites. If you
become steadfast and continue to sail your boat in the stream of no avarice,
you will be able to get true happiness.
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On
the basis of the strength of your character, if you can say no to all the
materialistic comforts, costly gadgets, expensive clothing, posh houses and
wealthy living, you will tap the unfailing inner source of eternal and never ending
blissful status. Believe it or not, the above phenomenon is not based on the
glamorous objects of the world, but is completely based on your distinct
spiritual knowledge of self-realization. But when your no desire syndrome becomes a mere showmanship, then you will not be able
to accrue the benefit of perpetual happiness. The reason is that you apparently
show no desire, but in reality, you crave to obtain the comforts and want to be
happy. So, this is a dual game played by
you, which may make you happy for the time being, but not for long. True
happiness starts when you learn the art of right adjustment to other persons
and their needs. This right adjustment depends on your tenacity to forget your
own identity. This value system of yours increases when you show genuine love
for others. When you reach this stage in
your life, you learn the importance and influence of spirituality and convert a
life of limited self into a life of love.
When you show a life of love, you reach the stage of God-realization,
which provides you unlimited mental happiness and bliss. The happiness of God-realization
must be the goal of all creations. You cannot visualize and understand the feeling
of this stage unless you experience Godhood. Through this route, when happiness
arrives in your life, you will not curb
to face any types of physical and mental sufferings of this world. In the midst of sufferings, under the
experience of Godhood, you will feel, as if there are no sufferings at all. It
may not be possible for all of us to be God-realized, but still, you can focus
to control your mind through yoga practice and meditation. Slowly you will
reach a stage, where you will be able to allow your all pains to pain you
without making you unhappy. When one becomes God-realized and attain the stage
of Godhood, everything will become insignificant to him. The happiness on the stage of God-realized is
self-sustained, ethical, pure, fresh, boundless and indescribable. You will be perpetually
happy, if you show your non-attachment to all the possible attachments and
desire to attain God-realized state in your life.
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