Karan Chhabra_BLP060_Self Leadership_September 2012

‘Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get”.
Dale Carnegie

Wanting happiness is natural, everyone wants happiness but how do they get it is different for different people. Some may feel happy in being rich and other might feel happy in looking beautiful however, according to me happiness lies in respecting our life and our karmas. This seems to be philosophical but I fell is the real mantra of happiness. We don’t have to go and search for happiness in this materialist world it lays within ourselves. We all are blessed with a human soul which as per Bhagavad Gita we get it after 84 Lakhs species so, what else can give us happiness instead of respecting such a precious life.  We are not sure whether we will take our next birth or not or what we will be in our next birth. With this uncertainty why should we waste our life in looking for happiness rather we must look within ourselves to find happiness. We must respect every single breath and devote our life to Lord, our family; our gurus and mankind which will not only give us happiness in this birth but will also open doors of happiness for our next birth.

We all are creators of God and he has been very kind to us by giving a human life but we differentiate ourselves with other by our karmas. Bhagavad Gita also talks about the Karmas it says “karam kar aur faal ki prapati ki chinta maat kar” which means that we should only concentrate on our efforts rather than worrying about the outcome. Whatever we do in this world we have to pay for it here only so our efforts determine whether we deserve happiness or not. Our karmas can only lead us to a path of happiness. This path of happiness can be short or long which also depends upon on our karmas. We might get the short term happiness by running around things in this materialist world but this happiness will sustain for a very short period of time. To gain the longer term happiness we have to devote our life in spreading happiness. This has also been said by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji that happiness lies in giving happiness to others. Like children, if you give them sweets in their hands they become so happy, happiness of gaining something. So until you don’t give yourself to others you will not find contentment or happiness. You can never be content in taking. Contentment comes only in giving. But people want to be contented in taking and they go after things but no one finds contentment. That is why people are not contented. Only in giving there is happiness.

Respecting our life and Karma is just the input which is required to bring happiness in our life. Also, I would like to add that by attaining the peace and by doing good deeds will be a source of happiness in my life. I would like to die happily rather than living happily so that I should be away from the vicious circle of life and death.