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Happiness!

January 24, 2008 · 5 Comments

This is the thing that every man wants to achieve, whatever may be the field he is in. So how to go about it? Still remains a million dollar question to us. Already every one has his own way of approach to attain happiness. We get N number of solutions if we ask others about that.

Some lame saints say one has to give up his desires. But if one wants to give up desires, giving up itself becomes the desire. Ya, they got it all wrong. Without desire what can be done? After all it is the desire of one man that drives him towards his goals. People say Buddha had no desires. Wait, preaching others and giving them ways to live and get the enlightenment, all are Buddha’s desires.

Some say we need to do serve others to get pleasure. Come on, it won’t be practical. But we have to make sure we serve ourselves so that we remain fit to do something else. Doing service is good but the question is will it be enough? Chanting and meditation are also not new to our culture. Centuries of faith had led us frame traditions and rigorous rituals. Few of them actually give us happiness. Hard work will bring success, we all know. But even after achieving that people are not totally happy. I don’t agree with people when they say “Material success is unimportant and be satisfied and don’t dream”. Constantly improving and going to heights is a must and we have to dream. Because we can not hit a target if we can’t even see it.

So finally you get what I am trying to say. ‘We cant get happiness and those methods are useless’. Nay, you are wrong. The most common thing happening today is people do become happy by doing the right things, right in their own way. But problem is they don’t even know they are happy. They try to get more happiness. So one tries to get more and more and after all being human he can’t reach the infinity. So to be happy the best thing is believe that you are happy already. Simple, isn’t it?

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5 responses so far ↓

  • kaushik // January 24, 2008 at 9:49 am | Reply

    good philosophy.

  • vijay // January 30, 2008 at 5:14 pm | Reply

    what’s your opinion here???

  • sssjvsss // February 4, 2008 at 6:08 am | Reply

    the statement regarding saint and desire just remind me another old tamil kavithai

    ” thuravai thuranthathum kadhal varum ”

    the meaning is, giving up everything is thuravi, when u give up that state and decide to take all u will fall in love ..
    though its no way related to this , ur wordings reminded me about that …

    but frankly, the fact is no one who wishes to become saint can become saint as he still has the desire to become saint, u become saint only when u got least idea of becoming…

    its the state u gain not u reach…

    as far as happiness, being content is happiness for many… kinda universal stuff…

  • vijay // February 5, 2008 at 5:05 pm | Reply

    ya. but ironically these universal truth are those that are never realized by ppl!

  • sssjvsss // February 24, 2008 at 4:25 pm | Reply

    dont worrry da
    we have started blog na we shall make them realise :) :)
    no fun intended… serious statement

    btw
    plz post more frequently :)

    by
    http://www.sssjvsss.wordpress.com

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