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Everyone on this earth plane wants to be happy. There is no one who would welcome miseries even though they are inevitable. There is no one who can deny about happiness. Amazingly only a few will say they are happy while the majority of the lot say they need to be happier. Is happiness so eluding, why is it that everyone cannot be happy?
Could it be so because there is no limit to being happy? Let us start from when we were studying at school; we were told that if we study well and get good marks we will be happy. After school when we were in college it was a good job which could make us happy. With a good job it was promotion which could bring us happiness. Promotion, success, marriage and children take the position to make us happy. But none can retain happiness to long time.
Where is happiness? You ask a middle class office clerk he imagines his manager to be happy while his manager thinks his area manager is happy and area manager assumes his regional manager to be happy and the regional manager believes his C.E.O to be the happiest person C.E.O always feels his competitor is a happy man.
Some feel that rich and poor divide is the hindrance to happiness. They say if an oyster can make a poor man happy it is the pearl that could bring happiness to a rich man. But in both the cases neither of them will be happy because oyster and pearl are something that is outside. Happiness is something which is within if it has to emerge out the chattering of the mind has to be ignored. Can the chatter of the mind be ignored? Yes it can be. The chatter of the mind is because of external distraction like comparison with others. As we are living in a society where the means is “Survival of the Fittest” we are used to getting rattled by the developments outside. With our attention on other we have failed to notice happiness within.
Once a traveler came riding on a horse to a village well. The water from the well was drawn by using oxen which revolved around the well using buckets and Persian wheel. The traveler wanted his thirsty horse to drink the water from the well. But the bucket attached to the Persian well was making too much noise and the horse was frightened and it would not come near the well.
The horseman requested, “Can’t you stop the wheel for a moment so that my horse can drink water?”
The villager said, “Sir, if the wheel is stopped the water does not come up.”
The traveler asked, “Is there any way out?”
The villager said, “You need to get the horse used to the noise and make it come near the well. There is no other way”.
We cannot stop the chatter of mind and nothing is lost even though we can be happy. Happiness within can be felt if there is chatter of mind but it has to be ignored tactfully ................... Right ??????????
Everyone on this earth plane wants to be happy. There is no one who would welcome miseries even though they are inevitable. There is no one who can deny about happiness. Amazingly only a few will say they are happy while the majority of the lot say they need to be happier. Is happiness so eluding, why is it that everyone cannot be happy?
Could it be so because there is no limit to being happy? Let us start from when we were studying at school; we were told that if we study well and get good marks we will be happy. After school when we were in college it was a good job which could make us happy. With a good job it was promotion which could bring us happiness. Promotion, success, marriage and children take the position to make us happy. But none can retain happiness to long time.
Where is happiness? You ask a middle class office clerk he imagines his manager to be happy while his manager thinks his area manager is happy and area manager assumes his regional manager to be happy and the regional manager believes his C.E.O to be the happiest person C.E.O always feels his competitor is a happy man.
Some feel that rich and poor divide is the hindrance to happiness. They say if an oyster can make a poor man happy it is the pearl that could bring happiness to a rich man. But in both the cases neither of them will be happy because oyster and pearl are something that is outside. Happiness is something which is within if it has to emerge out the chattering of the mind has to be ignored. Can the chatter of the mind be ignored? Yes it can be. The chatter of the mind is because of external distraction like comparison with others. As we are living in a society where the means is “Survival of the Fittest” we are used to getting rattled by the developments outside. With our attention on other we have failed to notice happiness within.
Once a traveler came riding on a horse to a village well. The water from the well was drawn by using oxen which revolved around the well using buckets and Persian wheel. The traveler wanted his thirsty horse to drink the water from the well. But the bucket attached to the Persian well was making too much noise and the horse was frightened and it would not come near the well.
The horseman requested, “Can’t you stop the wheel for a moment so that my horse can drink water?”
The villager said, “Sir, if the wheel is stopped the water does not come up.”
The traveler asked, “Is there any way out?”
The villager said, “You need to get the horse used to the noise and make it come near the well. There is no other way”.
We cannot stop the chatter of mind and nothing is lost even though we can be happy. Happiness within can be felt if there is chatter of mind but it has to be ignored tactfully ................... Right ??????????
Right.very nice.It is like if you want to take a bath in the ocean you cant wait till the waves stop.you have to manage with the waves watching them and take an opportunity.Just like that we have to manage the chattering and be calm.Happiness means being peaceful.
ReplyDeleteSreeram, thank you very thought provoking, For myself, I find that happiness asks for an effort that perhaps contentment does not. I find it easier to picture contentment for some reason (ofcourse the experience of it can still be elusive!)
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