Search of happiness-II

How can one attain state of happiness?

Happiness can be attained by training the mind and doing continuous practice for getting the attainment of the happiness. Initially practicing happiness will seem difficult but later on this will become matter of habit. Glimpse of sadness may visit you occasionally but that will subside soon and you will enjoy the eternal happiness that is bliss.

Here it is worth mentioning that , sadness/grief doesn’t devour the happiness in toto and happiness doesn’t substitute the sadness fully. Person feels both simultaneously. Just take an example a student is ill having fever and high body ache and he gets a news that he stood first in examination for he had put his heart and soul few months back. Will he feel happiness? Yes off course, he will. He will feel happiness with in flood of griefs. This is fact that one can feel sadness with in happiness and happiness with in sadness.

The quantity of sorrow and happiness decides actually, which one will be dominant and which one will be recessive. Again this is a subjective term as the act which will make one sad may not act similarly on another person, similarly the act which one will make someone happy may not act similarly on another parson. This depends upon the inner core of person how he perceives towards external stimuli.

Happiness attracts happiness. When you are happy happiness of whole world will come to you. When you are sad, sadness of whole world will visit you. This is why it is said that problem does not come alone (Dukh akale nahin atai). Take a brief example if your mind is calm, content you are happy, then you simply ignore small bad thing occurring to you, this will not raise your blood pressure as it does not make any significant effect upon you. If you are unhappy, you take note of every small negative thing occurring to you which makes you tired, frustrated and finally unhappier.

Hence there is no specific way to attain the happiness or there is no way which goes upto the home of happiness. You can attain happiness without any movement just by training the mind to receive the every thing happening to you happily, being the will of nature. The same thing is quoted in Gita as “Sukhe dukhe same Kritva, Labha alabhau Jaya Ajayau”. One can not treat happiness and sorrow as same until the mind is trained accordingly. Meaning thereby you can not change the events going in whole universe but you can change your self at least this is easier to change your self than changing whole universe. Happiness is scattered every where you have to prepare yourself to pick the Akshay Patra (A pot which always remains full) of happiness.

Search of happiness-I

What is happiness?

Defining "happiness' with in four corners of words is not possible. There are certain characteristics of happiness which may help one to understand the happiness. The meaning of happiness may vary person to person from time to time.

Happiness is a state of mind which may be attained internally but can not be achieved outwardly. Happiness requires no movement, no physical activity but training the mind by continuous practice. Happiness is the food of soul not of the body.

Happiness is not an absolute term it is always comparative. There is nothing in the world by attaining which every person will become happy, There is no place in world, by going where every person will get happiness. A poor boy may become happy by getting a broken toy thrown by rich boy. A person becomes happy by getting a job left by someone else. This shows happiness is neither in toy nor in job but it depends upon Individual’s mental status and physical circumstances. When your one set of desire is full filled you get momentary happiness which subsided by lapse of time. We may say these are glimpse of happiness not happiness in true sense.

Attainment will give you momentary happiness; fulfillment of a set of desire will provide only a glimpse of happiness. There is nothing in this world attaining which nothing lefts to attain. There is no desire, satisfaction of which will not followed by another desire.

We can try to understand this in some other way. There is desire/expectation fulfillment of which gives happiness.

DESIRE……………FULFILLMENT……………………HAPPINESS

When there is desire there is no happiness, when happiness comes after satisfaction of the same, we don’t feel the desire but happiness. Meaning thereby when there is desire, there is no happiness and when there is happiness there is no desire. Therefore Happiness is state of desirelessness. It is a state of contentment. It is a state of peace. It is a state of bliss.

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