SECRET OF HAPPINESS

It is wrong to believe that a man obtains happiness when position, riches and prestige which are supposed to exist outside of him are got by him and that not getting them causes grief. The delights of external objects are only a fraction of the true inner joy. The joys associated with being an Indra, or a king are only a very tiny particle of the Paramaatmasvaroopa which is compact of supreme aananda.

All the joys arising from external objects must get into one's being and merge into the inner joy. They must enter into the mans self and become one with it else, he cannot say 'I am happy'.  On the other hand, one who continually lives in the ecstatic experience of the aananda of the Paramaatman realizing his non-difference from It, does not feel that there is an external source for his joys, that his aananda depends on the things from outside and that not getting them would cause him grief.

Indeed, if a man keeps on saying: 'I shall be happy if I get this or that from the outside world; else, I shall be unhappy', that will make him run after those objects, to 'pine for what is not', to get angry if one hinders his getting it, to feel enmity to such a one, to commit murder and end in suicide in the extremity of disappointment. There win be no peace to such a person.

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