Definition of Happiness

[Guest guest]

Definition of Happiness

 

Man wants happiness. He shuns pain. He moves heaven and earth to get

the happiness he wants from sensual objects, and lo, gets himself

entangled in the extricable meshes of Maya. Poor man! He does not

know that these objects are perishable and evanescent, finite and

conditioned in time, space, and causation. And what is more, he

fails to get the desired happiness from them. Sensual pleasure is

tantalizing. There is enchantment so long as man does not possess

the objects. The moment he is in possession of the object, the charm

vanishes. He finds that he is in entanglement.

 

A worldly man is always drowned in sorrow. He is ever struggling to

get something, some money, some power, some position, and so on. He

is always anxious as to whether or not he would get it. Even when he

is in actual possession of the thing he so passionately longed for,

he is very anxious lest he should lose it.

 

A rich man has great wealth, but he has no children. And so he is

pained at heart. A poor man has fourteen children, but he has

nothing to eat, and so he is miserable. One man has wealth and

children, but his son is a vagabond, and so he is worried. One man

has riches and good sons, but his wife is very quarrelsome. No one

is happy in this world.

 

You cannot have pleasure without pain. Wherever there is pleasure,

there is pain. You vainly seek pleasure in gold, in women (or men in

the case of women), in this mundane existence. You cannot have

absolute happiness in a relative physical plane of pairs of

opposites. The pairs of opposites rotate in their turn. Death

follows life. Night follows day. Light follows darkness. Pain

follows pleasure.

 

Pleasure and pain are two names for one thing. They are two aspects

of one thing. For a worldly man without philosophical knowledge,

they appear as two different entities.

 

Real happiness is within you. It is in the Atman. It is subjective.

It manifests when the mind is concentrated. When the Indriyas are

withdrawn from the objects outside, when the mind is one-pointed,

when there is Vasana-kshya and Manonasa, when you become desireless

and thoughtless, Atmic bliss begins to dawn, spiritual Ananda begins

to thrill.

 

The musk is in the navel of the deer, but it runs here and there to

smell it. The chain is in the neck of the damsel, but she runs

hither and thither in search of it. The precious diamond is within

you, but you run after the broken glass-pieces in vain. Even so, the

ocean of bliss is within you; the fountain of joy is within you; and

yet, you run here and there in search of it. The Sun of suns is ever

shining in you, but your blind eyes cannot behold it. The eternal

sound is ringing within you, but your deaf ears cannot hear it.

 

Spiritual bliss is the highest bliss. Spiritual bliss is bliss of

one's own Soul. It is transcendental bliss. It is independent of

objects. It is continuous, uniform and eternal. It is enjoyed by the

sage only.

 

This world is a mere appearance. Mind and the senses are deceiving

you every moment. You have mistaken pain for pleasure. There is not

even an iota of happiness in this sense-universe. Abandon these

selfish struggles and schemes for amassing wealth. March directly to

that wire-puller who is moving these toys of fleshy human bodies,

who is keeping up this big show. In Him only you will find lasting

happiness and perennial joy. Merge in Him by practicing daily

meditation and japa.

 

Source: http://www.dlshq.org/messages/happy.htm

 

----------

 

Baba Said....

 

" Keep your faith in any one place (point) you like place, stick

quietly to one place. " .

 

" It is on account of Rinanubandh (former relationship) that we have

come together, let us love and serve each other and be happy " .

 

" To remember Him only is to solve the riddle of life and death. This

is the best and easiest of Sadhanas as it involves no expenditure " .

 

" If you have no other Sadhana. Such as uttering God's name, worship

or devotion etc, but if you take refuge in saints whole-heartedly,

they will carry off safely across the ocean of worldly existence "

 

Baba is every where just feel him and keep on saying `Om Sai Ram' to

whom so ever you meet.

 

OM SAI SRI SAI JAI JAI SAI!!! Let us pray at the lotus feet of

Bhagwan Baba who is the incarnation of all gods and protector of

all, to show mercy on us, and increase our devotion towards him

 

Jai Sai Ram

Swamy Mahadevan

Bow to Shri Sai-Peace be to all

Baba Bless you ever!!!