[ ::: ♥Keep_Mailing♥ ::: ]™ THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS

Absolute 'Truth'!!!

The secret of happiness is hidden under the cover of spiritual knowledge.

The soul in Sanskrit, in the terms of the Vedanta, is called Atman which means 

happiness or bliss itself. It is not that happiness belongs to the soul; it is that the

 soul itself is happiness. Today we often confuse happiness with pleasure; but

 pleasure is only an illusion, a shadow of happiness; and in this delusion man

 may pass his whole life, seeking after pleasure and never finding satisfaction. ... 

Do you think that if these people gained their desires they would be happy? 

If they possessed all, would that suffice? No, they would still find some excuse for

 unhappiness; all these excuses are only like covers over a man's eyes, for deep

 within is the yearning for the true happiness which none of these things can give. 

He who is really happy is happy everywhere, in a palace or in a cottage, in riches or

 in poverty, for he has discovered the fountain of happiness which is situated in his 

own heart. As long as a person has not found that fountain, 

nothing will give him real happiness.

   

A Marathi poet has said, 'O mind, my restless mind, my mind with its thoughts of 

a thousand things which it supposes will make it happy, saying, 'If I had that, I should

 be happy; if I had this, I should feel life was not wasted.' O, my mind, will you tell me 

who in this world is happy?' The mind says, 'if I had the wealth which I see others have,

 I should be happy.' But are these others happy? They in their turn say 

they would be, if they had something still higher!

The secret of happiness is hidden under the veil of spiritual knowledge. And 

spiritual knowledge is nothing but this: that there is a constant longing in the heart 

of man to have something of its origin, to experience something of its original state, 

the state of peace and joy which has been disturbed, and yet is sought after 

throughout its whole life, and never can cease to be sought after until the real source

 has at length been realized. ... It is only those who are blessed by perceiving the

 origin and source of all things who awaken to the fact that the real inclination of 

every life is to attain to something which cannot be touched or comprehended or 

understood. The hidden blessing of this knowledge is the first step to perfection. 

Once awake to this fact, man sees there is something in life that will make him really

 happy and give him his heart's desire. He can say, 'Though there are many things in

 life which I need for the moment, and for which I shall certainly work, yet there is only

 that one thing, around which life centers, that will satisfy me: the spiritual attainment,

 the religious attainment, or, as one may even call it, the attainment of God.' Such a one

 has found the key to all happiness, and has found that all the things he needs will be

 reached because he has the key to all. 'Seek, and ye shall find: knock, and it shall be

 opened unto you... 

Seek first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you.

' This kingdom of God is the silent life; the life inseparable, eternal, self-sufficient, 

and all-powerful. This is the life of the wise, whatever be the name given to it; this

 is the life which the wise contemplate. It is the face of this life that they 

long to see; it is the ocean of this life that they long to swim in; 

as it is written: 'In Him we live and have our being.'

These are the ones who are really happy, who are above all 

unhappiness, above death and the destruction of life.

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