How to Gain Happiness – 3

Now what is the means to happiness? The answer to happiness is – having the aim of attaining the sentient Paramatma (God, Supreme Being) and lawful and righteous conduct (according to Dharma). The purport is that when our conduct is according to Dharma and when we have no desire to get anything else besides that which […]

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How to Gain Happiness (contd)

If you think seriously then you will come to know, that you do not become happy on acquiring things, on the contrary, on getting those things, the desire and want (which are the cause of all sorrow and suffering) increases even more.  It has been said – ‘All the vegetation, grains, animals and women that […]

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How to Gain Happiness

That which pleases the mind-senses is pleasure (happiness, joyous) and that which appears to displease the mind, is displeasure (unhappiness). This is the common explanation on pleasure (happiness) and displeasure (unhappiness) from ordinary people. We think that if we get food, clothing, houses, cars, land-property, knowledge, medicines and various other things etc. at a low […]

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How to be Free from Fleeting Attractions

Question –  Maharajji !  We hear, understand, and know and then too we become attracted to the fleeting (rising and perishing) objects and persons.  How can we be freed from this attraction?   Answer –  See,  you have at least recognized this.  Or else,  nowadays this point is not even comprehended, that these things, objects,  persons are […]

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Happiness in Renunciation

When one is hungry,  one gets pleasure from eating –  this is an indisputable fact. Pay attention !  The pleasure that one gets from the first morsel,  does one get the same pleasure after eating five-ten morsels ?   As we continue to eat, the pleasure of eating diminishes. Finally, the hunger comes to an […]

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Serve the World and Accept God as Your Own

  If we serve the world then the world will also be happy and the master of the world – God will also be happy.  If we accept God as our own, then too God will be happy. In this way, God will become twice as happy, and we will benefit twice as much –  […]

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