Seeking Happiness

Seeking  Happiness

Man's Quest for Happiness

Seeking Happiness - Man's Quest for Happiness

Seeking Happiness

Man is in next stage of evolution compared to animals which are controlled by four instincts- aahar, nidra,bhaya, and maithuna ie food,sleep,survival and procreation.

Man is one step ahead in that he seeks happiness. The meaning and significance of happiness for every individual varies.

For example one may get happiness indulging in non-veg food. Another may seek happiness in veg food. The right one is obvious!

Our sarasar vivek ie power of discretion indicates that seeking happiness not at the cost of happiness of others is necessary.

And seeking happiness is natural instinct in human being.

Seeking Happiness

Generally one is unaware whether the happiness he is seeking is worth or not.

Next problem is one generally seeks happiness originating from external factors in the world. And realizes that those factors are not in his control and permanent one. This realization leads to frustration, disappointment and depression.

In fact,happiness is within us. Let us not forget, being happy is more important than becoming happy involving unnecessary efforts and needless hard work.

But being unaware one goes on trying to seek happiness from the world around.

In the process one realizes that such happiness is momentary. Consequently one looks for next kind of happiness. And this process is a continuous one. And we wonder why one constantly runs towards happiness putting in all possible efforts.

And we must not ignore the fact that we must discover happiness in small small things in life we can experience but unfortunately we ignore the same.  For example, seeing sunrise, sunset, observing kids, flowers and so on.

We can find a number of such small small things in life wherein we discover happiness.

Seeking Happiness

Next point is while craving for happiness of different types,one is not able to set out priorities.

Also, one often fails to understand the significance of type of happiness one is seeking. Whether it is healthy,positive,achieved in a non-violence means and so on.

And having achieved happiness is not enough as one also wants to share it.

I think all this complexity can be avoided if one is aware of -

• meaning and significance of supreme values of life -freedom,peace,love, compassion.
• meaning and significance of polarities in values like truth and untruth, ethical and unethical, healthy and unhealthy, violence and non-violence, moral and amoral and so on.
• having understood the above,one should make right choices while making decisions
• necessity to develop preparedness to accept the consequences of one's own decision making.

Having implemented the above,one will not constantly run after happiness but applying sarasar vivek achieve good,healthy,positive happiness towards transformation in life.

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