DO YOU HAVE A MOMENT TO THINK FOR HAPPINESS

June 15 , 2009

The complete world is running after happiness without understanding happiness. How to be happy that lesson is not taught in schools/colleges. We are not aware of happiness nor have we tried to understand deeply, what is happiness?

If happiness is just lying in money only then why small children of laborers and people who all are living under poverty line are found to be full of joy, laughing heartily and living the life to its fullest. If happiness is lying in money then why has monk sold his Ferrari?

Is Happiness a monetary success? Is it only a physical world?

Money cannot make you happy. Money can create comfort level for you. A very high level of comfort and luxury can be managed by money but money cannot make you happy.

Money is not the final destination, of course, one o f the key factors to reach to the final destination of happiness.

But, what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. We should never direct ourselves towards happiness because happiness is never a final destination.

“The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.” Said Bertrand Russell.

Happiness comes by your work and words, which are benefiting you and community at large. We cannot have one objective of being happy. Happiness is never a product; it is a byproduct of karma.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. Find it in our pleasure. It is what we choose to make us happy. It is to be filling inside, Happiness cannot come from outside. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is what we think and feel and do, first for the other fellows and then for ourselves.

What can make you happy? Suppose we give you freedom to live and you find yourself happy. So, happiness and its factors are changing from time to time, place to place and case to case.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden.

“He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.” -- W. Beran Wolfe

Helen Keller said it very profoundly,

“Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

I would like to conclude MONDAY WISDOM with the message: Find time to review and re-think, that I am a happy man or unhappy man; it is just a thing of worry. Live with purpose and live every moment with happiness.