Everlasting happinesss

                     There are primarily two kinds of happiness experienced through the temporary and permanent mediums on planet earth. Transitory happiness can be contacted through interaction with the external and material World whereas an everlasting source of happiness can be availed through permanent mediums such as spiritual exercises with the soul and union with God. There is both happiness and sadness, joy and sorrow, a mixture of the opposite polarities, through the experience of the material World. Therefore, the occasional spark of happiness we achieve from the experience of the material World is short lived or transient. On the other hand, the everlasting happiness we contact by restoring the soul with full awareness does not ebb away like the tides and waves on the ocean but remains permanent throughout our entire life. The transitory happiness we achieve through interactions with the material World is normally obscured by the vast burden of suffering we have while living our life in the mortal realm. Happiness experienced through the mortal World comes, but arrives in our lives at a cost. The price of having to constantly spin in the cycle of suffering as the material World is an inefficient realm which cannot fulfill each and every of our desires. At times it may seem to us as if it is really worth putting all the hard labour into our lives and the  fruitless results ends us in great sorrow because of the incapacity of the mortal realm to fulfill each and every human want. On the other hand as Mr.Dipak Chopra says, the transition from the known to the unknown or from the state of the dormant human soul to a fully awake one connects us to the creative power of the Universe. When we have connection to the creative power of the Universe we have the ability to manifest our desires for anything we want. The quality of the fully restored soul to fulfill any kind of need you may have by merely using the ability to manifest your desires is real Power. This is real abundance and affluence. Try how hard one might in the material World, happiness comes but with a heavy price of having to exhaust and stress oneself out completely. In the same way, the happiness we gain through the mortal realm comes but with all the complexities of the opposite polarities such as disappointments, anxiety, failure, shortcomings etc. On the other hand, the effortless effort of a spiritually awake human being can employ his ability to manifest his desires to achieve anything  he wants without investing a single penny and without the need to churn in the ever rotating rotation of exhaustion, stress, anxieties and suffering.

                         On the one hand, the constant suffering of the material World and its incapacity to fulfill each and every human want. On the other hand, the Sat-Chit-Anand or the blissful and elevated state of the spiritual realm and its capacity of being able to fulfill each and every desires of a spiritual aspirant. The never ending effort of the human beings to accomplish their wants and being left unsatisfied and the spiritual planetary existence of spiritually elevated being’s ability to have anything at their command by an effortless effort.

                        The normal human beings depend on the material medium to be happy and therefore has a cause or reason to be elated. There is always a cause or reason for normal human beings to be happy, may it be the performance of their offsprings at school, the added bonus they get through their work every now and then, the purchase of a new vehicle or the inclusion of a newborn into their family etc. Vedic science declares that the happiness we experience in the material World can be taken away from us at any time. But the gift from God of permanent happiness we contact through the spiritual growth process is a blessing from Him and here to stay with us forever.

                           Let me give you an example of how God sometimes snatches happiness from our lives to aid him with his Divine Mission in the Universe or to suit some other purposes. I am an honest man and I will tell you that I was fated to become a doctor. The momentum for an onslaught of a nervous breakdown in my life had been building up at around the end of my first year during my intermediate degree. The momentum reached its height and I suffered  an immediate nervous breakdown during the beginning of my second year in intermediate. The onslaught of the nervous breakdown was added with another attack of the worst form of psychosis, Paranoid Schizophrenia after I returned home. But the blessing from God was that I never regretted all these hard times and instead transformed these difficulties into a permanent happiness state by propelling myself onto the path of meditation. Maybe God believed I would be better at being a Divine instrument than spending hours on the operating table dissecting and putting together human beings. I will tell you that I have succeeded through the blessing of God in realizing my highest spiritual objective and have kickstarted my path of Dharma to suit only one purpose, that of serving God wholeheartedly.

                             The normal human beings depend on the external medium or a cause and reason to be happy. On the other hand, the most prized soul awareness of a spiritually awake being never needs a cause or reason to be happy. A fully awake being does not need to depend on the external medium or a cause and reason to be happy. A spiritually awake being is always in a permanent  state of happiness and is ever happy without an external cause or reason. According to Mr.Dipak Chopra, happiness for no reason is the kind of happiness we want to experience. Material beings always has an external cause to be happy but spiritually elevated beings have no reason at all to be happy. They are all happy by themselves without a cause or reason. All Sat-Chit-Anand’s don’t need money to be happy, the comfort of luxury would not get them carried away and make them more happier and sex is the last thing in the World that would give them complete fulfillment. The everlasting happiness of a fully awake soul being permanent is not affected and obscured by even the most unpleasant disharmony present in the external World. Whether he loses his property to an onrush of a flood or contracts cancer, his state of happiness is permanently intact and unaffected by even the greatest tragedies in his life.

                      Collecting, amassing, hording to get that ounce of satisfaction is not achieving real happiness nor is wealth, luxury and possessing great sexual prowess the source of true and everlasting happiness. Finding and having no reasons to be happy and to be in constant jubilation  and celebration without having to depend on anything to be elated is genuine, real and everlasting happiness. The never ending effort to sustain the wheel of life is suffering but the effortless effort to have anything at your command by merely using the ability to manifest your desires is what the fully restored awareness or the happiness state all  about. The accumulation of luxury and wealth by having to partake in the vicious circle of suffering is not affluence but it is in living the state of Infinite Grace, to be able to achieve anything one could wish for by ones spiritual abilities, real abundance and affluence.The creative power of the Universe is a source which has Infinite resources to fulfill each and every desire of every living being in the entire manifested Cosmos. Being spiritually abundant and affluent is not the moral rather it is in finding fulfillment in God, living righteously and serving God’s cause for a spiritually awake and vibrant Cosmos the only mission of all human beings. 
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