Why Are You Looking for Happiness In the Wrong Place?

 Why Are You Looking for Happiness In the Wrong Place?

To look for bliss outside ourselves is like attempting to rope a cloud. Joy isn't a thing: It is a perspective. It should be lived. Neither common influence nor moneymaking plans can at any point catch joy. Mental fretfulness results from an outward focal point of mindfulness. Fretfulness itself ensures that bliss will stay slippery.

Genuine joy is never to be viewed as outside Oneself. The people who look for it there are as though going after impossible fantasies among the mists. Examine, with grasping brought into the world of contemplation, the real essence of sense-delights. You stick to them, yet know in your heart that some time or another they can't however deceive you.

The closer investigation uncovers that sense-extravagance really derides its votaries. What it offers isn't opportunity however soul-subjugation. The method of departure lies not, as a great many people envision, down greenery delicate paths of additional extravagance, but up hard, rough ways of poise.

As a man permits himself to rely progressively upon conditions outside himself for his physical, mental, and otherworldly sustenance, never glimpsing inside his own source, he slowly exhausts his stores of energy.

Ownership of material wealth, without inward harmony, is like passing on from thirst while washing in a lake. It is profound neediness, not material miss the mark, lies at the center of all human affliction.

Separating between your necessities and your wants is significant. Your requirements are not many, but your needs can be boundless. To find opportunity and euphoria, serve just to your requirements. Quit making boundless needs and chasing after the will-o-the-wisp of misleading satisfaction. The more you rely on conditions outside yourself for satisfaction, the less joy you will insight.

Try not to be the captive of things or assets. Reduce even your requirements. Invest your energy looking for enduring joy or euphoria. The unchangeable, undying soul is taken cover behind the screen of your cognizance, on which are laid out dim pictures of infection, disappointment, passing, etc. Lift the shroud of illusive change and be laid out in your godlike nature.

Enthrone your whimsical cognizance of the constancy and serenity inside you, which is the privileged position of God. Allow your spirit to show delight, night and day.

Bliss can be gotten by the activity of poise, by developing propensities for plain living and high reasoning, and by spending less cash, despite the fact that procuring more. Try to procure all the more so you can be the method for helping other people to help themselves.

What is the utilization of investing all one's energy in things that don't stand the test of time? The show of life has for its moral the way that it is only that: a dramatization, a deception.

Fools, envisioning the play to be genuine and enduring, sob through the miserable parts, lament that the cheerful parts can't persevere, and distress that the play must, finally, reach a conclusion. Languishing in the discipline over their otherworldly visual impairment.

The shrewd, nonetheless, seeing the show for the total dream it is, look for everlasting joy in the Self inside.

D.G.Shastri

Courtesy: Paramhansa Yogananda