Be happy from within
It does not matter what is the nature of your activity, essentially you are in pursuit of happiness. But this happiness has been so elusive.
“If my boss is yelling at me, how do I be blissful? If my wife is not co-operating with me, how do I be blissful? If my bank balance has become zero, how do I become blissful?” Yes, these are life’s real situations, but the question I would like to ask you is this: For whatever reason, if outside situations have gone out of control and turned unpleasant for you, is it not all the more important that at least you keep your insides pleasant and wonderful? It does not matter how carefully you walk through this life, you will step into some unpleasantness. It is unavoidable.
So whenever we face unpleasant situations, is there any intelligence in turning your insides unpleasant as well? In fact, when the outside is unpleasant it is extremely important that you keep your insides pleasant.
How is this possible?
Look at your own life’s experiences — maybe you watched the sun rise and became very joyful; maybe you heard some music and became very joyful; maybe you achieved some success and were joyful. It does not matter what the stimulus was, whenever you experienced happiness or joy, it bubbled up from within you. It never rained upon you from somewhere.
So the very source of happiness is within you. Right now, the stimulus is outside. Now the choice is just this — do you want to keep the stimulus outside or do you want to keep it inside?
The source of happiness is within you, but the switch for it is in somebody else’s hands. They can turn it on or turn it off whenever they want. Anybody can make you happy, anybody can make you unhappy; any situation can hijack your happiness at any moment. If your very way of being is deeply enslaved to external situations, if somebody or something is deciding what should happen within you, it is the worst form of slavery.
Unless this slavery is abolished you will not see a better world.
It does not matter how much technology, how much comfort, how much convenience is there in your life, you will not see a better world unless you feel better inside. So one has to do a little bit of inner engineering to turn into a beautiful being.
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