Pathway to eternal happiness
Everyone in this world seeks
happiness; but none secures consummate, lasting happiness. Life comes to an end
in the pursuit of happiness, which recedes farther and farther. The reason is
not far to seek. Consummate, undivided and lasting happiness does not, really
speaking, inhere in the objects of nature from which man seeks to divine
happiness. Therefore, if you desire happiness, worship God, who consists of
consummate, undivided, lasting and true happiness.
One would get a thing from
there alone where it exists. We shall only meet with frustration if we seek to
extract oil from sands or churn ghee out of water; for there is neither oil in
sands nor ghee in water. Oil-seeds such as sesame and mustard will be
needed for oil and milk for ghee. Even so, consummate, undivided and lasting
happiness exists exclusively in God; He alone is the ocean of infinite joy.
Therefore, if you seek happiness, worship him.
What is meant by worship of
God is that you should surrender yourself to God in the same way as you have
given yourself upto sense – enjoyments due to a craving for self—gratification.
Develop the same innate and spontaneous love for God as you have for
sense-enjoyments.
There is no friend so
unaccountably loving and disinterested friend, no compassionate being affording
such asylum and protection under all circumstances—favourable or unfavourable –
as God. In addition to His being a disinterested friend, God is all-powerful
and all-knowing too. Having dedicated yourself to Him, you will feel His divine
touch and consequently all your sufferings will come to an end.
Joy and sorrow do not in here
in any particular situation, living being or inanimate object; they lie in the
favourable or unfavourable attitude of our mind towards it. We grow unhappy
when we are confronted with an adverse situation and feel happy when we meet
with favourable circumstances. These joys and grow or diminish according as our
feeling of agreeability or disagreeability grows or diminishes. They get
reversed or disappear when our feeling agreeability or disagreeability is
changed or disappears. What appears painful to you today because of your
feeling of disagreeability towards it will appear otherwise tomorrow if your
feeling towards it changes.
On your dedicating yourself
to God, His all-benign, all- blissful grace will be perceived by you
everywhere; every dispensation of His – which comes to you as a consequences of
your doings—will react agreeably on you because of its benignity. The feeling
of disagreeability will exist nowhere and you will become happy under
circumstance.
The world consists of pairs
of contraries. The world is nothing but a concept made up of pairs of opposites
such as joy and sorrow, honour and ignominy, praise and reproach, gain and
loss, agreeable, good and evil. God is one and same everywhere, He alone
pervades all pairs of opposites, all pairs of opposites are conceived in Him as
the substratum; nay, it is He who stands manifested through them or in other
words all pairs of opposites are His creations or play. He alone exists.
Therefore, if you seeks some consummate, undivided and lasting happiness, worship[
God alone with all your being.
Until God becomes the sole
object of your life and until you turn your face towards God and adopt the
means conducive to His realization and until you actually begin to practice
those means you will never and in no case be able to catch a glimpse of peace,
happiness never abide in any living being, object or situation of this imperfect,
transitory and changing mundane existence. They are never attended with the
painful circumstances of imperfection, perish ability and mutability. True happiness
inherit in God alone, who is eternal, unsurpassed, the highest embodiment of
perfection, imperishable and always and perpetually the same. Therefore, making
Him alone the goal of your life and adopting the courses of discipline
conductive to His realization mould your life accordingly.
For any man wishing to reach
a certain destination three things are most essential to keep the destination
in mind, to take to that path alone which leads to that destination and stick
to it. If the destination itself is forgotten nothing in the way of attaining it
can be achieved. No progress would be possible. Even if the destination is not
lost sight of, and one takes to a wrong path, one would not be able to reach
the goal. Again, if one has chosen the right path but does not proceed on it and
remains stationary, even then it will not be possible for him to reach the
destination. Therefore, do not lose sight of the goal keep it constantly in mind;
adopt a course of discipline carefully to the best of your ability.
If only you turn your face towards
God and commence treading on his path, the more you proceed on it, your
capacity to walk on it will proportionately increase; nay, you will get more
and more desirable and beloved companions ever-disposed to help and serve you,
your path will be more and more convenient and easy, you will get more and more
light and health, the divine endowment will get more and more light and health,
the divine endowment will be yours and real peace and true happiness will beaded
more and more to you. For, the path you are treading is such as is traversed
only by those endowed with divine virtues and gets more and more marked with
the interchange of God-like virtues even as you advance on it.
If on the other hand, you turn
your face away from God and, directing your eyes towards the world of enjoyment,
set about treading on it, the more you advance on it the more you will lose
your sattvika strength, the more you will have the company of the vile and the
depraved, thieves and swindlers, robbers and scoundrels, who always molest and
rob others. The road you will meet with also be more and more rugged, full of
gravels, stones, thorns and pits, interrupted; nay you will get addicted to all
the vices, vicious thoughts an evil deeds forming part of the demoniac
endowment and you will automatically turn into a picture of limitless agitation
and endless miseries. For, the path itself is such as is marked by a gradual
expansion of the demoniac legacy and trodden by people endowed with such legacy
an exchanging the same.
The divine endowment in the
shape of divine virtue makes for Liberation, whereas the demoniac propensities
lead to bondage. Tranquility, righteous deeds and happiness are the constant
companions of those endowed with divine virtues. Happily and peacefully engaged
in righteous deeds in this life, they attain to God; whereas those possessing
demoniac propensities are ever haunted by restlessness, sin and sorrow, dragging
a worried and agitated existence all their life, they remain engaged in evil
deeds and ultimately go to hell. The divine endowment leads to God-Realization,
whereas the demoniac propensities pave the way to hell.
Demons can attains limitless
power, abundant worldly riches, extensive authority, very high position,
worldly fame and glory; but these can never bring real peace and true
happiness. They keep burning all their life and remaining addicted to evil
deeds, are eventually subjected to frightful tortures hurled into the
hell-fire. Therefore make God, the embodiment of true bliss, the exclusive end
of your life and with the sole object of realizing Him remain constantly and
carefully engaged with single minded devotion in course of discipline
favourable to his realization.
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