Guest guest Posted October 22, 1999 Report Share Posted October 22, 1999 Sai Ram Brothers and Sisters, Happiness is the interim between two unhappinesses. The happiness we seek is a desire for something permanently pleasant. This is not possible in a world that is ephemeral, not lasting and fleeting in nature. It is not possible to gain permanent happiness in a world that is essentially Dukha, or potentially unhappy. It is false perception, that makes us look to the material world and relationships for happiness. It is this going out that is wrong; we should be going within. Through prayer, meditation, action, and enquiry, we should turn the mind to the Antakarana, or the Indwelling Reality. The only way to achieve happiness in the world is to become the world and see all as One Self, Atma, or Moksha.(Soul or Liberation.) The problem is that although man has five sheaths/koshas; body, life-force, mind, wisdom, and bliss, he/she only operates up to the mind or manomayakosha. This requires transcending the other essentially animal-human sheaths through Sadhana or Spiritual Practice, to reach the wisdom or vijnanamakosa sheath. Here is the only place that a human can experience true bliss. The Divine Life-Force has to vibrate properly, through Spiritual Practice, and the senses following the right path. If the senses are impure life itself will be experienced as impure. See good , do good, hear good, and be good. " Yath Drisyam Thannasyam." The Vedas. All that is seen is bound to perish. How many relatives, husbands , wives, children etc have we had in our many lives? How much wealth have we owned? Where is it all now? So why look for happiness where it is not? Love and Sai Ram, Tony. Easy to say, hard to do .ha ha There is a glossary of sorts on my website. ===== http://members.xoom.com/aoclery/ Keep on truckin-breathe So----Ham! "God is formless. In order to merge in the formless God, you have to give up identification with the body." "There is only one Soul and that is God." Sai Baba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 22, 1999 Report Share Posted October 22, 1999 In a message dated 10/22/1999 1:36:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, aoclery writes: << The problem is that although man has five sheaths/koshas; body, life-force, mind, wisdom, and bliss, he/she only operates up to the mind or manomayakosha. This requires transcending the other essentially animal-human sheaths through Sadhana or Spiritual Practice, to reach the wisdom or vijnanamakosa sheath. Here is the only place that a human can experience true bliss. The Divine Life-Force has to vibrate properly, through Spiritual Practice, and the senses following the right path. If the senses are impure life itself will be experienced as impure. See good , do good, hear good, and be good. " Yath Drisyam Thannasyam." The Vedas. All that is seen is bound to perish. How many relatives, husbands , wives, children etc have we had in our many lives? How much wealth have we owned? Where is it all now? So why look for happiness where it is not? Love and Sai Ram, Tony. Easy to say, hard to do .ha ha >> On my way out but wanted to respond, by having one's reality, one's rational boxed framework, consistently challenged and transcended by powerful synchronicities, one's vision of the universe expands... Inviting an intimate encounter with the numinous, and so in gentle discipline of these bodies, the physical, emotional, mental, soul, spirit, the numinous is able to penetrate ever more deeply pervading and deeply enriching the whole of life, because the numinous is awareness, wisdom, love, it is consistent, unchanging, ever-penetrating through, releasing us from our focus on body, emotional or thought-processes, and letting these be interpenetrated by the numinous, the attachments to these are the cause of pain. The release of attachments happens gradually over time, by vigilant awareness, and crossing the void, by dying being reborn, in stages, we cannot be fully penetrated by the numinous all at once. The body's container would shatter for most. Apathy, discord, fear, all of these are little ego personality traps we use to hang on and not move into Soul-centered awareness. It is difficult, each level is "ah ha," and one seeks to remain there, not remembering that when the last level was let go, there is ever yet another more en - light - ening that is evoked ... I would not ask, "where is happiness" this is something from our Declaration of Independence a word chosen... perhaps "Where is Bliss?" "Where is Serenity?" "Where is the Light?" "Where is the Love?" "Where is Peace?" Becoming aware of these questions in proufound ways provides an inner richness to the tapestry of life's flow which the outer, ephemeral world is incapable of providing until the inner world is a-light... then it is the whole of life ... one sees outward what one has inward... not that i have any of this, i'm just floating along *g* enjoying da show, time to stop lazily floating and ... zip ... Love and Light, ~ bo ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 23, 1999 Report Share Posted October 23, 1999 In a message dated 10/23/1999 9:00:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mirror writes: << Rainbo: > I would not ask, "where is happiness" this is something from > our Declaration of Independence a word chosen... > perhaps "Where is Bliss?" "Where is Serenity?" "Where is > the Light?" "Where is the Love?" "Where is Peace?" How about: "That which my whole being naturally desires?", regardless of what I have named it? Love, Mira >> Sounds great to me. Jan posted on NonDual about those who go after it with their whole being, it really struck me to the core those words, seems you also :-) Love, Annette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 23, 1999 Report Share Posted October 23, 1999 Rainbo: > I would not ask, "where is happiness" this is something from > our Declaration of Independence a word chosen... > perhaps "Where is Bliss?" "Where is Serenity?" "Where is > the Light?" "Where is the Love?" "Where is Peace?" How about: "That which my whole being naturally desires?", regardless of what I have named it? Love, Mira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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