HAPPINESS IS A STATE OF MIND

Happiness Is Here And Now

- I D SONI

Deep down in every heart is an unquenchable desire for happiness.

The advanced soul desires happiness just as much the pleasure seeking wording, the difference between then is simply that the former through knowledge and experience, does not search for happiness, knowing that it can never be found by direct seeking, but finds it through service and love to others and in vietory over self while the latter seeks happiness, like a will-o'-the wisp, in every form of pleasure, and finds is not.

Man is never satisfied with his life: He is forever seeking something that is better, until he learns wisdom, he looks for it in pleasure in sense gratification of various kinds, in wealth, luxury and possession. The less evolved a man is, the more convinced he is that happiness can be gained in these ways, and the lower are his desires. For instance, those who form what is called the underworld our cities, seek happiness in viee and debauchery those who are evolved seek pleasure in more refined things, hoping to find happiness in intellectual pursuits, friendships, and in pure human loves. These more evolved types get much more pleasure through the senses than do those who are more elemental, but they are capable also of greater and more acute suffering. They can derive great pleasure from a picture gallery, whereas a savage would see nothing interesting at all, they can also suffer from things which a savage would not be capable of feeling.

Yet, inspite of this developed refinement and ability to derive pleasure from art, science, literature, ete, happiness is still as far off as ever. All attempts at finding happiness lead finally to emptiness there is no satisfaction, either in wealth and all that it can command, getting on life, or in fame and power they allure at first and promise happiness but they fail us, and finally are seen to be but vanity and vexation of spirit.