Reply on Happiness - Who am I? ( # 10)

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This indeed is an important question for today. Literally, everyone is seeking

this in thousands of ways. Sri Ramana Maharishi has answered this question. As

rightly pointed out in a subsequent post this state called happiness can only

be experienced. We all crave for it but it is momentary all the time. It is

like a child who craves for his lolly pop. As soon as he gets it he forgets and

seeks an ice cream. It is therefore an unending quest.What then constitutes

Happiness?

 

First and foremost Happiness is a solid state. A snap shot like a photo

always.What then can make this happiness fluid. This is what Shri Ramana

Maharishi wants us to achieve to flow and abide in that fluid state.

 

What can create that. Shri Ramana Maharishi has also answered that we have to be

a witness to what goes on never take hold of anything the moment we do that it

becomes a photo.The example of the the burning sun and the shade itself is just

snap shots as explained below by you.

 

We come to the final answer we need to know our source that source is our 'I'

That "I' is the here and now. Experience that creation and that is where real

fliud happiness is! All this does not require the mind but your heart. the mind

is dead at this point.Shri Ramana Maharishi simply said ask who is asking that

question so that we can go to that source where creation really took place. The

big bang of eons ago.Everything at that time was predetermined.

 

 

 

R Ravi Sankarswathi dora <doraksp (AT) (DOT) co.in> wrote:

Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

 

Question: What is happiness?

 

What is called happiness is merely the nature of the Self.

Happiness and Self are not differant. The happiness of the Self alone

exists; that alone is real. There is no happiness at all in even a single

one of the [many] things in the world. We believe that we derive

happiness from them on account of 'aviveka' [a lack of discrimination,

an inability to ascertain what is correct]. When the mind is

externalised, it experiances misery. The truth is, whenever our

thoughts [that is, our desires] get fulfilled, the mind turns back to its

source and experiances Self-happiness alone. In this way the mind

wanders without rest, emerging and abandoning the Self and [later]

returning within. The shade under a tree is very pleasant. Away from

it the sun's heat is scorching. A person who is wandering around

outside reaches the shade and is cooled. After a while he goes out

again, but unable to bear the scorching heat, returns to the tree. In

this way he is engaged in going from the shade into the hot sunshine

and in coming back from the hot sunshine into the shade. A person

who acts like this is an 'aviveki' [someone who lacks discrimination],

for a discriminating person would never leave the shade. By analogy,

the mind of a 'jnani' never leaves 'Brahman', whereas the mind of

someone who has not realised the Self is such that it suffers by

wandering in the world before turning back to 'Brahman' for a while

to enjoy happiness. What is called 'the world' is only thoughts. When

the world disappears, that is, when there are no thoughts, the mind

experiances bliss; when the world appears, it experiances suffering.

 

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