Common man's Quest towards Inner Engineering to Happiness-2

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Radhe Krishna To All,

 

2. Why do we not earn real ‘happiness (sukham) from these?

 

I wish to make you understand this -- mental happiness is only the highest of

all ‘Bliss’ [and not physical ‘Bliss’]. You may be sitting on a silken

bed or live in a big palace. Your room may be air-conditioned. You may possess

all physical comforts. But, now, let us say that someone has abused you and you

come to hear of it. The mind immediately fumes. Does it not? You are sitting on

a silken bed, in an air-conditioned room but your mind is fuming. The physical

atmosphere is not giving you peace of mind. Your mind is fuming. Is this not the

situation [experienced]?

 

Thoughts gush up in you, ‘How dare he speak about me in this manner?’ Thus,

you lose your temper. So you rage with anger. You become furious. Your mind

fumes. Have you not lost your peace of mind due to this? When someone abuses you

it does affect you. Does it not? It does! You do not remain unaffected. If your

mind is affected then your whole state is affected. Your state changes. If

‘Happiness/Joy’ is received from external objects this state should not

change on hearing such news, for, you are occupying a silken bed in an

air-conditioned room. You have all comforts around you. But, it is the mind that

has been affected.

 

Likewise, are there not people who, in spite of possessing all comforts drink

alcohol and lie in an unconscious state? Why? So many pleasures await them

outside. But ignoring all these they drink something that intoxicate them and

lie forgetful of them. From this - taking intoxicating drinks and lying

unconscious - we know that ‘happiness’ got from within is greater than that

obtained from external objects. But the ‘ananda’ got from intoxicating

drinks is ‘tamasa happiness’; it is akin to that got from sleep or it can be

said to be a much lower state than that.

 

But, ‘Brahmananda’ cannot be described at all. It contains such great Bliss

.. And this ‘Bliss’ is permanent.

 

We go to the shop. We buy something. Even as we buy we ask the shopkeeper,

‘will it last long?’ Does not man desire only things that would last long?

Similarly, if ‘happiness’ is earned it should be permanent. There is no use

of that ‘happiness’ that comes and goes. Only spiritual Bliss is eternal.

 

Worshipping God is only for attaining that state. That is the truth. If we pray

to God for worldly things which are of low status, we will certainly obtain

these. But, for eternal Bliss we should have deep one-pointed devotion and know

the right way.

 

God is like a good judge. He does not see any differences as a devotee or a

non-devotee. Just as a good judge would offer punishment to his own child if he

has committed wrong, so too does God, since He has ordained that such and such

phala is enjoyed/suffered for such and such ‘punya’ and ‘papa’,

respectively, bestow the ‘phala’ of ‘papa’ and ‘punya’ on everyone.

This is the reason that God’s devotees also suffer. And those who are not

devotees also enjoy happiness. The appropriate answer for this is that these are

all due to ‘papa’ and ‘punya’ that one has done in his/her past lives.

 

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