“Duhkheshwanudvignamanah Sukheshu vigataspruhah
vitaragabhayakrodhah sthitadhirmuniruchyate” .
Happiness is a mental concept that comes through realization, because, only through
realization, reformation comes in the human. Ultimately, reformation generates happiness.
Again, it comes through our honest efforts, no matter how we got our success. Because, it
never counts one’s degree of success or failure. Honest effort is a kind of sacred journey that
takes the humankind through the state of absolutism while initiating our potentiality. It
protects us against all kind of odds and obstacles of life. Hence, happiness and absolutism go
together. The Buddha got his Buddhatwa after several attempts, which is a kind of happiness.
So did Mahavira through the ‘Kaivalya gyana’.
In both the cases, they had their honest effort to attain the absolute state of mind. They did
not bother for their rate of success or failure throughout their dedicated journey. Hence,
happiness comes through dedication, determination and devotion.
The human history has cultivated these three ‘D’s for happiness in several ways, but never
had noticed or calculated its outcome. Because, outcome follows the effort always, which is
otherwise known as ‘happiness’.
Again, happiness is a momentary experience that transcends the human into a state of
ecstasy through thought vibration only. It travels faster than the speed of light and spreads
like perfume in and around us and refreshes our feelings. It is a kind of thought therapy. Many
great souls like Vivekananda, Ramakrishna and Dayananda had experienced it through their
life span only by virtue of their service to the humankind.
Happiness is a science of body and mind. Here, the body exists but the thirst extinguishes.
Therefore, it is a state of ‘Nirvana’ or ‘Salvation’. Here, one feels ‘all in one’ and ‘one in all’.
Perhaps, this initiated the concept of ‘Vasudhaiva kutumbakam’ in the hoary past.
Happiness denotes a subjective appreciation of life by an individual without even a stated
obvious objective. Although the study of happiness and subjective well-being has thrived over
the few decades, the concept of happiness has been elusive since humanity started to tinker
its brain. It is an end rather than a means as well as a self-sufficient element to exist itself.
One can frame it as an essential ingredient of life’s canvas, which slowly paints us as we grow
along. In addition, without the grasp of happiness, however, little chunks, one would not have
a complete sense of growth. A few feelings like fulfillment and altruism give a glimpse of what
happiness senses like and it further makes the human expand. Hence, ‘Happiness’ in short, is
expansion.
Our culture fills everyone only with this concept of happiness. Hence, to realize it, one must
be free to act independently as dependency seizes happiness of the human very often.
Independency is a kind of spirited energy that mobilizes our thoughts to reach others’ openly
with all positive ideas. It reaches everybody like the fragrance of a flower, but dependency
contracts our thoughts and kills us every moment with negative thoughts. Again, happiness
is a process of mind-blowing activity through which, we fill others with good thoughts without
reaction. Here, action is more important than reaction. Therefore, we can define it as a
unilateral attainment and patience-bearing attitude of the human.
‘Happiness is a divine quality that fills us with bliss and blessings. It is God-gifted too’.
It fills us with the sense of reality and renovation. It reconstructs our mindset with fruitful
thoughts. It energizes us with its noble sway. Happiness is a symbol of One’s nobility. It
initiates one on the path of progress, prosperity and preponderance. Sometimes, it comes
through usual activity and sometimes through special one. Chaitanya got it through ‘bhakti
Rasa’, which consisted of love, song and dance. It is the degree of one’s concentration level,
which emits its spirit in and around the social system. One has to enjoy the spirit through
feelings. One has to explore its divinity through self-analysis and socio-psychological
phenomenon that revolves round our personality.
“Happiness and personality always go together. It comes through one’s facial expression.
Hence, it is an index of the humanity and expresses one’s positive achievements”.
The purpose of happiness could be to elevate, expand and emerge our inner-selves into the
realm of utter realizations of the simplicities that crafts life as it is. We have been trying to
run after, rush into and hurry at the sheer feeling of it, but it might surprise us that how simply
enough could we attain happiness, only if we intend to do so. The underlines of happiness lie
in heart, mind and soul- and to find a way to it, we must find our own internal quest.
Let us enjoy it through our hearts.
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