HAPPINESS IS A STATE OF MIND

 FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:


 

HAPPINESS IS A STATE OF MIND

 

 

Happiness or satisfaction is a state of one’s mind. Let not the external forces influence or qualify your feelings one way or the other. Let nothing be imposed from outside. Contrarily, let your inner-self decide it taking into account the positive mind-pleasing  factors.

 

As a guiding philosophy or slightly on a spiritual plank, we can put it this way. It is common knowledge that one desire begets another. In the mundane life, if one need is satiated another crops up in an endless spiral. (Let Lord Buddha forgive us!).

 

Money can help buy a cot, but can't get you sleep. Again, money can buy things, but not contentment or peace of mind. Put not your full trust in money, but put your money in trust to the extent required for a decent living and future. Some people are brilliant outside but hollow within. Being rich in the inner mind with peace of mind and good health is preferable rather than material richness, which alone sometimes doesn't get you happiness much less satisfaction. Happiness or satisfaction is not a commodity to buy but is only to be felt in the mind.

 

Be satisfied with what you are and what you have. For, there are many far below you in status and condition - physical, mental, and financial including health.

 

Someone cried for not having a pair of shoes but stopped crying when he saw another person without a leg. Twilight occurring at the end of the day brings darkness and the one occurring at the end of the night brings light. See the irony of the same cause making different effects. It is nature’s law! Surely there is always light beyond the tunnel. Life is full of blessings on one side and shortcomings on the other. 

 

If an option were to be exercised between happiness/peace of mind/good health on one side, and money/prestige/pomp on the other, it is preferable to settle for the former. Because money doesn't necessarily bring peace of mind, health and/or contentment.

 

There are two ways of being satisfied. One is to have all that you want; the other is to feel satisfied with what you have. The latter is perhaps the logically prudent and easy option.

 

We can show the carrot to the donkey but we cannot force it. We can take the horse to the pond but can’t make it drink. We can give advice to others, but cannot compel them to follow it. You may be correct on a point, but maybe incorrect to believe that others agree with you. The world is so wide and people are so diverse that you have to exercise restraint or taciturnity at times. Of course, it is easier said than done.

 

There are some paradoxical contradictions. Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. A hard and efficient worker need not necessarily be a good manager. You can't teach a person anything unless he/she grasps and absorbs it within the inner-self. The same rules apply to feel happy and satisfied.

 

Satisfaction, at the same time, cannot be misconstrued or misinterpreted. It is not a restrictive option. We necessarily need to work to perfection, do right things and do things right and differently to remain in the reckoning. Strive hard towards the goal. Any sincere good work done with enthusiasm, keenness, and perfection will never go unrewarded. Even if not, it gives you at least self-satisfaction.

 

Never mind a failure. For it is the stepping stone to success and a source of experience and indirect strength to act smarter in the future. However, don’t be satisfied with a hotchpotch or shabby work.  Passivity is not desirable as it gives room for lethargy, indolence, apathy and/or sloth. Let us not forget or overlook the adage, ‘Do your duty with interest, leave the rest to its course’.  Satisfaction or self-satisfaction is a kind of philosophy worth adopting if a well-performed job with utmost sincerity were to fail!

                  

Happiness is like a butterfly.  If you chase, it runs away. So, don’t try to chase it. On the other hand, if you live good in thought, faith, and deed with sincerity of purpose, it comes and sits on you on its own.

 

Friendship is a crossed cheque of Happiness. When you feel upset and depressed, encash it. When you are abundantly happy, deposit it with your true friends. Reciprocity is a natural ingredient of friendship. In fact and inversely, a happy person seldom thinks of happiness. Only others harp on it.

 

Every day is a welcome day. A good day gives happiness and bad day experience. 

 

In the lighter vein – if you have the choice to be one of the following two types – one who brings happiness whenever he comes, or one who causes happiness whenever he goes. Which one would you like to be?

 

(R.SAMPATH)

1/9/2021

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