From: satyamurthy viswanathan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 17 December, 2016 13:05 To: rainand Subject: Journey-Deep-Within: BLOG MADE PUBLIC Man wants to be happy: Swami Satchitananda (Posted on journey-deep-within.blogspot.com on Thursday, Dec 8, 2016) If you observe carefully, throughout nature you will find one common goal in everybody and everything—even in the atom. All are searching for happiness. In the case of human beings you see hundreds of efforts of various forms. The common purpose behind all these efforts is the search for happiness. The goal is approached by many in different ways. Some people want to be happy quickly, so they take shortcuts and get temporary happiness, but borrowed joy comes and goes. The happiness that we seem to be getting by our daily efforts is fleeting and mixed with a lot of troubles, worries, and unhappiness. Happiness cannot come without unhappiness before and after. It’s better to say, “I am happy,” than, “I want to be happy.” The minute you say, “I want to be happy,” that very want disturbs the mind. And suppose the want is fulfilled? How many people go crazy over a small piece of paper, a stamp printed some one hundred years ago? They pay thousands of dollars to get that piece of paper. They give value to it and struggle to obtain it. If you are caught up in this, you’ll say, “I can’t be happy without the stamp.” So you pay the price. Then you say, “Ah, I got it.” It’s simple enough. First you said, “I want it.” After all the effort you say, “I got it.” Where are you now? The same place you were before you wanted it. Happy. You were happy before you wanted the stamp. The moment you wanted it, you became unhappy. And the moment you got it, you were happy again. Where did the happiness come from? The thing by itself didn’t give you any happiness. You regained the happiness when you took the want back or when you fulfilled the cavity or depression created by the want. When we finally tire of searching for happiness outside, we sit quietly and analyze and realize that true and lasting happiness can never come from outside. It can’t come because it simply is. You are Happiness personified. You are that Supreme Bliss. You are that Joy. You are the image of happiness. God is the one who is always happy, and you are the image of God. Swami Satchitananda ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Ones, In order to reach out to the messages to all, this blog has been made public. Hence there is no restriction of any manner. You can access the blog by just entering the blog address - journey-deep-within.blogspot.com. Further, to make it more effective, there is a provision at the end of the live blog screen where you can subscribe to email posting. For your ready reference, the screenshot of the same is as under: For those who have not been able to follow the web posts so far, here is a recap on the posts done so far: Sr. Date Post Title Comments 01. 03-Dec Swami on Spirituality 1 02. 03-Dec Spirituality: Sadhana, the inward path 03. 08-Dec Man wants to be happy: Swami Satchitananda 04. 09-Dec True Happiness: Swami Krishnananda 05. 10-Dec Happiness Within 06. 11-Dec Seeking Happiness 07. 12-Dec LET US DISCOVER 08. 13-Dec LET US DISCOVER - Part 2 09. 14-Dec DIVINE CALL 10. 15-Dec Let us summarize 11. 16-Dec What has drawn us away from God 1 12. 17-Dec WHY GOD CREATED MAN 1 For posting a comment on any of the posts, there is a provision under each post to include your comment. Click on the post and after you read the post, at the end of the post, you will find a small text box to post your comment. Recent Comments can also be seen on live blog page on the right side bar. You may also share about the blog with your like minded friends. Let us as drops join this stream into the river of Spirituality to eventually merge into the infinite ocean that HE is. Love, Sathya. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "saimsg" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
