Happiness
is an emotion which everyone wants to have but it’s very difficult to describe.
Definition of happiness varies from person to person. If I describe something
as happiness or the source of happiness, may not be the same for others. For
me, happiness is achieving the goals and targets set by me. Also, being Satisfied
with the life and whatever life is giving to us can bring some happiness. There
can be other source of happiness in life, like playing any sport you like,
going out with friends, spending time with family and friends, etc.
Being
a source of happiness to others is also very common for many people. Many
people derive happiness by sacrificing comfort of their lives and doing social work
to give happiness to others. Saints and people working in NGO are getting their
happiness by teaching others and by devoting their lives for the upliftment of
society and people around them. Some people do everything to get this happiness
and try to search it in tangible parts of the life, like money, assets and
people but really happiness comes from within the human being. Many rich people
are not happy in spite of having all the required money with them and some
finds it(happiness) with minimum money required for living.
Religion
also plays a big role for people searching for happiness. Many people find
their happiness by adopting spiritual life and doing god work. In the
Mahabharata, when Dharmaraja disguised as the Yaksha asked Yudhisthira, “Who is
truly happy”? Yudhisthira replied, “One who cooks his own food, is not a debtor,
does not have to leave home to make in order to earn his livelihood is truly
happy.” This means that
according to Yudhisthira, person who is self dependent and get himself away
from materialistic life can be a happy person.
I am
still struggling to find out what is that which can give me happiness
throughout my life, but a second thought tells me that, happiness is like life,
it comes with its own up and downs, some times good and some time bad.
In the
end, I would like to end this by a quote by Dalai Lama,
“We
begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want
suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to
pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of
all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser
course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.”
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
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