Are you happy??? these three simple words forms one of the complex question to be answered! you ask anybody except child and I can bait answer would be in negative. I am not sure why its so difficult ...
I remember a dialogue from one of my favourite movie "Bawarchi"...it's very simple to be happy but very difficult to be simple....somewhere truth is near to this statement
over a period of time, we accumulate a fictional world around us under the influence of Maya. and then we start living under an assumption thats its real...if that fictional world behaves as per our wish, we become Happy and if they behave opposite to us, we become sad. and thus the cycle of happy-Unhappy begins. In a sense we as human likes to be in that state because it satisfies our bodily senses.
I see the answer to come out of this "Happy-Unhappy" cycle in Sre Bhagvad Gita. where Lord Krishna explain to Arujna, that though Human has wisdom but it's covered under the smoke of Maya:
dhoomenaavriyate vahinyarthaadarsho malena cha |
yatholbenaavrito garbhastathaa tenedamaavritam || 38 ||
I know its very difficult to be simple as it requires lots of meditation to realize that we are Aatma not this body only. Thus, we don't need this false happiness just to satisfy body senses. There is a Ananda beyond the happiness.
I am writing this though I haven't gone to that stage. but at least knowing is the first step to realize.....and I know this....realization is in progress
I remember a dialogue from one of my favourite movie "Bawarchi"...it's very simple to be happy but very difficult to be simple....somewhere truth is near to this statement
over a period of time, we accumulate a fictional world around us under the influence of Maya. and then we start living under an assumption thats its real...if that fictional world behaves as per our wish, we become Happy and if they behave opposite to us, we become sad. and thus the cycle of happy-Unhappy begins. In a sense we as human likes to be in that state because it satisfies our bodily senses.
I see the answer to come out of this "Happy-Unhappy" cycle in Sre Bhagvad Gita. where Lord Krishna explain to Arujna, that though Human has wisdom but it's covered under the smoke of Maya:
dhoomenaavriyate vahinyarthaadarsho malena cha |
yatholbenaavrito garbhastathaa tenedamaavritam || 38 ||
I know its very difficult to be simple as it requires lots of meditation to realize that we are Aatma not this body only. Thus, we don't need this false happiness just to satisfy body senses. There is a Ananda beyond the happiness.
I am writing this though I haven't gone to that stage. but at least knowing is the first step to realize.....and I know this....realization is in progress
