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Recieved: 1999/10/22 10:38
Subject: [K-list] Where is happiness?
From: Tony O'Clery
On 1999/10/22 10:38, Tony O'Clery posted thus to the K-list:
Sai Ram Brothers and Sisters,
Happiness is the interim between two unhappinesses.
The happiness we seek is a desire for something
permanently pleasant. This is not possible in a world
that is ephemeral, not lasting and fleeting in nature.
It is not possible to gain permanent happiness in a
world that is essentially Dukha, or potentially
unhappy.
It is false perception, that makes us look to the
material world and relationships for happiness. It is
this going out that is wrong; we should be going
within. Through prayer, meditation, action, and
enquiry, we should turn the mind to the Antakarana, or
the Indwelling Reality. The only way to achieve
happiness in the world is to become the world and see
all as One Self, Atma, or Moksha.(Soul or Liberation.)
The problem is that although man has five
sheaths/koshas; body, life-force, mind, wisdom, and
bliss, he/she only operates up to the mind or
manomayakosha. This requires transcending the other
essentially animal-human sheaths through Sadhana or
Spiritual Practice, to reach the wisdom or
vijnanamakosa sheath. Here is the only place that a
human can experience true bliss. The Divine Life-Force
has to vibrate properly, through Spiritual Practice,
and the senses following the right path. If the
senses are impure life itself will be experienced as
impure. See good , do good, hear good, and be good. "
Yath Drisyam Thannasyam." The Vedas. All that is seen
is bound to perish. How many relatives, husbands ,
wives, children etc have we had in our many lives?
How much wealth have we owned? Where is it all now? So
why look for happiness where it is not?
Love and Sai Ram, Tony.
Easy to say, hard to do .ha ha
There is a glossary of sorts on my website.
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you have to give up identification with the body."
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