'Happiness' The biggest paradox
“It is
always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false
values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and
you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.” ― Nisargadatta
Maharaj
We are controlled
by our thoughts. Those thoughts are created by our surroundings. We don’t know
why we want the material things very badly. But we believe if we got more of
the stuff we will get happy. But if its true the why rich people are very
unhappy. The unmarried thinks if he have wife he will be happy. When he is
married he feels like his freedom is lost and now he is having the
responsibility of the family. To fulfill that he, has to work like a slave. He wants
to have children. But he also needs to pay for their school, and daily needs.
Now he is more bounded like a spider in his own web. Now he don’t have his own
life and he worries 24 hours about food and security for the family.
Both
married and unmarried are unhappy, they block their own happiness and power.
Because they project their happiness in pleasant circumstances.
This is the
problem with us. We always desire so many things. We have unlimited
expectations. And its impossible to fulfill all desires and expectations of
mind and we are always unhappy.
This is the trap
of mind, we don’t know that but we are controlled by mind. Mind is not the real
self but it has the power to affect the real self. Did you ever thought some
people doing most difficult tasks are happy, you may have listen about the
soldiers who were deadly wounded but still laughing. Some freedom fighters were
smiling while getting hang to death. They were happy in extreme conditions
because they dedicated there ‘mind’ to the mission. Understand one thing- you
don’t need any external condition to be happy. The material things are always
decaying. Nothing is permanent other than your deeds. This is the key to the
power, don’t believe your mind, decide some big goal in life and dedicate yourself
to that goal and you will become great.
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