We should be content with what life gives us. Not only that, we have to follow the practice of “road to happiness”. Selfishness inevitably leads to dissatisfaction and disappointment because desires are endless. The problem of happiness is therefore the problem of dropping one's desires.
Desires, however, can not be effectively overcome through mechanical repression. They can be annihilated only through knowledge. If you drive deep in the realm of thoughts and think seriously for just a few minutes, you will realize emptiness of desires.
Think of what you have enjoyed all these years and what you have suffered. All that you have enjoyed through life is today nil. All that you have suffered through life is also nothing in the present. All was illusory.
It is right to be happy, and yet you create your own unhappiness by wanting things. Wanting is the source of perpetual restlessness.
If you don't get the thing you want, you are disappointed. And if you get it, you want more and more of it and become unhappy. No contentment in life.
Say “ I do not want anything “ and be happy. The continuous realization of the futility of wants will give you the freedom from wants that leads to the road to abiding happiness. As long as one has a body there will be some needs, and it is necessary to meet those needs. But wants are an out come of infatuated imagination. They must be scrupulously killed if there is to be any happiness. As the very being of selfishness consists of desires, renunciation of wants becomes a process of death.
DYING IN THE ORDINARY SENSE MEANS PARTING WITH THE PHYSICAL BODY, BUT DYING IN THE REAL SENSE MEANS RENUNCIATION OF LOW DESIRES.
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Gaurav Seth 4 years, 11 months ago
We should be content with what life gives us. Not only that, we have to follow the practice of “road to happiness”. Selfishness inevitably leads to dissatisfaction and disappointment because desires are endless. The problem of happiness is therefore the problem of dropping one's desires.
Desires, however, can not be effectively overcome through mechanical repression. They can be annihilated only through knowledge. If you drive deep in the realm of thoughts and think seriously for just a few minutes, you will realize emptiness of desires.
Think of what you have enjoyed all these years and what you have suffered. All that you have enjoyed through life is today nil. All that you have suffered through life is also nothing in the present. All was illusory.
It is right to be happy, and yet you create your own unhappiness by wanting things. Wanting is the source of perpetual restlessness.
If you don't get the thing you want, you are disappointed. And if you get it, you want more and more of it and become unhappy. No contentment in life.
Say “ I do not want anything “ and be happy. The continuous realization of the futility of wants will give you the freedom from wants that leads to the road to abiding happiness. As long as one has a body there will be some needs, and it is necessary to meet those needs. But wants are an out come of infatuated imagination. They must be scrupulously killed if there is to be any happiness. As the very being of selfishness consists of desires, renunciation of wants becomes a process of death.
DYING IN THE ORDINARY SENSE MEANS PARTING WITH THE PHYSICAL BODY, BUT DYING IN THE REAL SENSE MEANS RENUNCIATION OF LOW DESIRES.
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