yogi-ks
10-08-2006, 02:05 PM
We all seek happiness. Happiness is a state of mind. So is unhappiness, a state of mind. Happiness is very relative. A person who collects stamps feels very happy viewing his collection, but to the one disinterested in stamps it is a meaningless boring object. A person used to a big city like Delhi is quite used to the noise , endless traffic, pollution, water and eclectric shortages etc. A villager cannot get sleep in such an enviornment. An average human feels happy on getting wealth but an anchorite finds wealth painful and of no use.
There can be many more examples, it would suffice to conclude that happiness is a very relative term, the cause of happiness of a particular thing to one person may not be the same to another. Even if it be so, whatever gives us pleasure in this world is very temperory and fleeting. A source of pleasure today may become a source of pain tommrow. So the wise and the Yogis did not seek happiness in the temperory objects which simmer for a while and are consumed by time. They sought permanent happiness and worked all thier lives to seek the eternal. Truely actual happiness lies in the eternal Self. May you all become wise and seek that which is the permanent source of joy.
Yogi K S .
There can be many more examples, it would suffice to conclude that happiness is a very relative term, the cause of happiness of a particular thing to one person may not be the same to another. Even if it be so, whatever gives us pleasure in this world is very temperory and fleeting. A source of pleasure today may become a source of pain tommrow. So the wise and the Yogis did not seek happiness in the temperory objects which simmer for a while and are consumed by time. They sought permanent happiness and worked all thier lives to seek the eternal. Truely actual happiness lies in the eternal Self. May you all become wise and seek that which is the permanent source of joy.
Yogi K S .