Happiness is a state of mind to feel

Happiness is an ephemeral state of mind. At some point, you may be extremely happy and immediately after that, you may be pervaded with sorrow. This is the “sun and shadow” syndrome of your mind. If your mind is controlled and not getting that much influenced by any external factors, neither happiness nor sorrow can afflict you that seriously and you will remain sedate. But that stage of mind is not easy to acquire.  A lot of understanding, perseverance and patience are required to have a control on your mind to reach the particular stage of equilibrium of mind’s calmness.

Happiness is an eternal innate and perpetual quality of the soul.  We are blind to feel this quality of the soul and mostly concentrate on the externals and fulfillment of our various sensual desires. The externals which mostly divert our attention from our soul are our bodies, roles, relationships, our responsibilities and possessions. We are so much engrossed in our externals that we seldom enter into our happiness mode of soul and enjoy the real happiness of life.

Happiness is a condition of mind, which is governed by choice. It never happens by chance. Because of external forces or circumstances, when your mind becomes sensitized, either you feel elated or depressed.  This conditional influence makes you happy or unhappy depending on the gravity of the situation. But this sensation, which has a cascading effect on your mind is completely of your choice.  No one can force you to be happy or unhappy. If you are hell bent to be happy, no circumstances or happenings can make you displeased with anything.

Your response to a situation depends how you perceive the same and react accordingly.  That is why, in a similar type of situation based on environmental constraints, some show their anger whereas some remain cool.  Why it is so? The reason is that each and every situation is analyzed in a different perspective  by different persons.  If things are going on your way, mostly you accept the outcome gleefully.  But if it is not, you should not get upset, find out the reason why it has happened differently.  After analyzing the reason, take corrective measure and follow the same, so that the things again go on your way.    Some people get angry, even for a trivial and frivolous issue keeping them always at a distance  from the phase of happiness.  No sooner you become frustrated, you are shifting your mind from positive mode to negative mode and inviting the snare of unhappiness.  At that point of time, most of the people  curse their luck and remain gloomy for a considerable time and  then bring God into the picture to help them to come out from the impasse.   

For example, If you hold a senior position in your daily responsibilities in your job, where you have to transcend many obstacles, barriers, conflicts, nepotism, wrangling and slanderous criticism, you become tensed.  If you are able to set up an equation of love with God and trust His presence to help you, you can pass on all your worries to Him and then pretend to be happy, if not really happy.  By practicing this method of entrusting every odd situation to God with a firm belief in Him, you can learn the techniques of remaining happy. Of course, this practice is not a simple formula and this does not mean that you disown your responsibilities and only become God-centric.

This is only to say that you guide your intellectual sense by God’s wisdom to come out from the influence of bad situation whenever you are affected by the same.  With God’s wisdom to your side, you will be able to find out a solution to your problem, which mostly snatch your happiness.  If you are able to trust this principle and follow the same, then  it will enable you to stay in happy state almost all the time  irrespective of the situational constraints.

Our life mode is like a playground and we all are the players to play various games at different occasions as per His mercy.  When you imbibe His presence in your mind, you will be able to circumvent all actions, whether it is good or bad in the right spirit, which ultimately make you to remain happy.

In  pursuit of happiness, you need not to do anything, you do not have to search happiness, it will automatically come to you and make you energetic and agile.  You only have to condition your mind, discharge your duties very sincerely and think  His presence in your all accomplishments.  If you are happy, you are bound to be a healthy person both mentally and physically. Most of the time, when we are happy, our body’s nervous and endocrine systems work smoothly, which, in turn, result the production of healthy hormones, the root-cause to keep ourselves healthy.  The healthy state of mind will attract a good fortune.  You will be satisfied whatever the circumstances and the situations you pass through. This satisfaction itself will illuminate and glow your life.

If you want to be happy all the while, you have to develop a habit of doing good to others, thinking good for others and extending your love and services whatever way it is possible for your parents, friends, neighbors, acquaintances and even for your foes, just to rejuvenate your internal energy to enlighten your soul  and to be in the mode of happiness all the time.  

Lastly, the more you share your happiness with others, the more happiness will come to your  doorsteps  as an intrinsic value in your life to repay your good deeds.