TRUE HAPPINESS... ?

The whole world is after elusive things - peace and happiness, which are two faces of the same coin. The moment a child takes birth, or even before birth itself when it is in embryo state, it starts getting conditioned  by totally  misguided souls around. It is helpless and this helplessness continues unabated till natural awakening happens ( for some it happens and for some it may not happen at all). For most of us, happiness is  most misconstrued.  True happiness has to be THE SAME FOR ALL because all 'pure souls' are INDIFFERENTIABLE and INDISTINGUISHABLE  ! The momentary ( can be a second, minute, hour, day, week, fortnight, month, quarterly,  yearly, decade..or even a life span itself ) pleasures ( physical, materialistic, emotional or otherwise) in whatever forms cannot be equated with true happiness.

 

Just happened to read an article by Sadguru. Thought of sharing with you.  - MP

 

TRUE HAPPINESS

by Sadguru

The basis of misery is that we have established ourselves in untruth. We are deeply identified with that which we are not. We have got identified with  things around us. We have got identified with our body and mind. That is the source of suffering.

Whatever you have known and all your experiences are only limited to five sense organs. Whatever you have known either of the world or yourself has come to you only by seeing, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting. If these five senses go to sleep, you will neither know yourself nor the world.Bur they feel everything only in comparison. So this is not genuine experience.

All yogic practices are fundamentally aimed at giving you an experience beyond the five sense perceptions. This is not in terms of physical reality; it is in a  totally different dimension. That dimension, whether you call it God, or call it Self, it does not matter. Whatever your idea of God is , it is  simply coming  out from the limited experience of who you are right now. It is not coming from your true experience. The only thing that which you can experience is that which is within you. And that which is within you, you have never really  looked at in real depth.

The whole experience of transcending your limitations must happen within you. If you want to transcend , it can happen - but only if you are willing. Otherwise no power on earth or in  heaven can move you.

 

Spirituality is simply the process of disidentifying with what we are not, to shed the layers of conditioning so that we know what we are not.   When that is completed ,we arrive at something that cannot be discounted. This discovery will be the recognition of divinity, and we will see that there is no reason for misery in the world.

 

The whole process of yoga is to make your interiority absolutely in your control. It is a possibility to move from a state of external enslavement to inner completeness, which is unbounded, your life is also unbounded. You can either sit with your eyes closed or can perform different actions - both ways , your life can be complete.

 

When a man has reached this state WITHIN HIMSELF, where his actions are only to the extent required for outer life situations, then he is a complete person. If within you , your inner nature has attained fulfilment regardless of the external situation, we can say that you have become unbounded. This is a state of true happiness.

 

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>>> In the process of  getting conceived in the mother's womb and coming out in to this world and growing in infancy days, you have absolutely no control  whatsoever and, therefore, you are naturally bound to  get 'conditioned'. When you are conditioned( you are not liberated because you are bound), you cannot be pure as there is a heavy bias in all things and surroundings around you. If you are in the process of cleansing your mind, body & soul ( and this can happen,  if and only  IF you are 'AWAKENED' inwardly ); you are, on your own,  in the process of deconditioning all the accumulated 'pollutants' to recondition yourself to a super conscious level ... and that is true happiness... because IT IS THE ONE AND ONLY ABSOLUTE  and COSMIC TRUTH.  Period.   - - MP