Search for Happiness

6 feb 2007 12.45pm

How to be Happy

Everyone seek happiness. Many think that money can buy happiness. The reason for this is that money can satisfy many of our desires in life such as buying a car, condominium, and all the other worldly pleasures. It is the satisfaction of desires that brings happiness and suffering is caused by not having these desires satisfied.Once a desire is satisfied, the happiness disappears and the next desire that arises need to be met before one can attain the happy state. Worldly happiness is therefore transitory. Happiness and unhappiness are the opposite side of the same coin.
True happiness is a state of bliss which can only result when the higher Self is in command of our mind. Higher Self being the Ultimate Reality ,is Consciousness and Bliss. Truth is described as Existence(Sat) Knowledge (chit) and Bliss (ananda).The word Satchitananda is a good word for God because it avoids all preconceptions of our knowledge of God..
Although we can speak about Truth as being Bliss and Consciousness, that is as far as we can go. Truth has to be experienced but not spoken about .To realize Truth, is called Self Realization or God Realization..
The attainment of Self Realization has been the goal of every spiritual person. Many have tread the various paths to obtain this state. The most common way is meditation.
Self Realization however cannot be attained by intellectualization. It will come to a person spontaneously and at any moment that is least expected. A person will have to first practice the three things in life.They are lead a moral life, practice concentration and attain wisdom.(not of the worldly kind)