Happiness is your birthright...
Joy and cheerfulness is not a life of pleasure. No! It is the conscious awareness of our inner divinity. When we are happy, when we are really happy, we are making real progress. When we become a happy heart, we move forward, we dive deep within, we fly. Progress is in movement, and this movement comes only when we have joy and we become joy.
Real joy comes from acceptance of the world, and not from renunciation of the world. God has chosen the conditions under which you are living your present life. It is like a play. The stage is set and the curtain has been raised for you to perform your part and advance in the spiritual path. Your present conditions are the best possible ones for your advancement.
In our daily practical life there is a way for us to get joy. If we lead a simple life and go to our goal on a direct path, if we walk along a sunlit path, then we can have joy. A simple life is the life of happiness. A direct path is the path of joy. A sunlit path is the path of constant joy.
Do you want to be happy?
Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.
Simplicity we need at every moment. If the mind is not simple, if the mind is complicated and complex, then there can be no peace in the mind. A child is simple. A child is all joy. If we have a simple existence, we shall feel how lucky, how happy and how fortunate we are
To live in joy is to live the inner life. This is the life that leads to self-realisation. The outer world, unfortunately, does not right now embody these qualities, whereas the inner world has them in boundless measure. So we try to establish a free access to the inner world by virtue of our inner cry and our soulful meditation. We call this our aspiration. There is no difference between inner happiness and aspiration. They are one. Aspiration is the flame and happiness is the light of the flame.
IF WE CAN OFFER HAPPINESS TO SOMEONE LOVINGLY AND SINCERELY, THEN THAT PARTICULAR PERSON WILL HAVE ONLY GOODWILL TOWARDS US. SO FROM HAPPINESS WE GET PEACE
I feel that it is through prayer, meditation and dedicated service that world peace can take place. Each individual has to try and make others happy, for it is only through happiness that we can have peace. If we can offer happiness to someone lovingly and sincerely, then that particular person will have only goodwill towards us. So from happiness we get peace; from peace we get happiness; the two are inseparable. www.srichinmoy.org