Success in Life

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Everyone thinks happiness is to be found in objects and experiences.

Everyone thinks, " If I could only attain certain objects, if I could

only possess them, if I could experience them, I will get happiness. "

In spite of countless disappointments and disillusionments, man never

learns. There is not an iota of happiness in earthly objects. No

object is perfect. They do not have in them the power or ability to

give you lasting happiness or joy because they are finite and they are

imperfect. Otherwise, they must be able to give a homogeneous state of

happiness to all beings at all times under all conditions. But what do

you actually see?

 

If you like milk and you take a glass full of sweetened milk flavoured

with spices, the first glass may give you satisfaction. And if you are

pressed upon to take another glass, the second glass may give

satisfaction, but it is not the same degree of happiness or pleasure

as was the first glass. And if your stomach is already full with two

glasses of milk, if you try to take a third glass of milk, it becomes

unpleasant, it becomes undesirable. And if it is forced upon you, a

forth glass of milk produces nausea and you will h ave to throw it up.

Where then is real happiness?

 

If milk had in it the power of giving happiness, it must be able to

grant you this happiness at all times, under all conditions. It cannot

change its nature. Such examples show that all experiences derived

from the contact of senses with their respective sense-objects

ultimately are experiences that end in disappointment.

 

Therefore, the great world teacher, Lord Krishna had this very

important insight to impart to us when he said: " O Arjuna, all these

experiences brought about by the contact of one or other of the five

senses with their respective sense objects, these experiences are

ultimately the source of sorrow. There is no real happiness in these

sense contacts and sense experiences. They are but mere momentary

sensations afterwards giving you pain. "

 

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