SECRET OF LIFE
Happiness should lie in the process of enjoyment. Whether it is misery or
happiness, you will find real happiness in the process of enjoyment of both.
[January 01, 2012 New Year Message]
The human being is reluctant to miseries and enjoys the happy situation. The human
being can be compared to an ignorant child, who enjoys the sweets only and is
reluctant to chillies. Hence, such a human being is ignorant. The grown up adult
enjoys both sweets and chillies in the meals. Similarly, a in the realized soul enjoys
both happy situation and miseries life. Therefore, it is only ignorance, which is
the inability of art of enjoyment. God created this world with happiness and misery.
People enjoy the cinema, which contains both pleasant scenes and tragic scenes.
Similarly, people enjoy both sweet dishes and hot dishes in the meals. People enjoy the
day and night. People enjoy the hot summer and the cold winter. The whole life and
creation is full of alternating happiness and misery. If a person can enjoy both
happy times and miseries in the life, he is equal to God. You may say that God enjoys
the creation from outside. God also enters the creation in the form of human incarnation
and enjoys both pleasant times and miseries in the life span. We see this truth in the life
history of Rama, Krishna, Jesus and Mohammed prophet. Therefore, if you always
crave for happiness only and reject miseries, it is unnatural and also ignorance of a
child. The knowledge of the Gita, Bible and Quran preaches that you should enjoy
even a top most misery, which is the time of death.
If you enjoy both miseries and happy situations, you are in a continuous state of
enjoyment. You think that continuous enjoyment comes only through continuous times
of happiness in the life. It is not correct. You get bored if you are served only with sweet
dishes in the meals. Boring is misery. Therefore, misery is inevitable like summer after
winter and winter after summer. The Indians denote happiness through cooling. The
foreigners represent happiness through warming, which is heat. Therefore, the
happiness to one is misery to the other. What is the reason? The foreigner is mainly
exposed to winter, which bores him. Therefore, for a foreigner, the heat is happiness.
The Indian is mainly exposed to summer and therefore, cool atmosphere is happiness
to him. This is a practical proof that the enjoyment is not confined to happy scene or
tragic scene only. This also proves that you can enjoy both happiness and
misery. Therefore, it is ignorance to ask God for removal of misery and sanction
of continuous happiness. Happiness should lie in the process of enjoyment. Whether
it is misery or happiness, you will find real happiness in the process of enjoyment of
both. The happiness neither lies in the sweet dish nor in the hot dish. The happiness
lies in the process of eating the dish, which may be hot or sweet. If this secret of
life is known, you will never pray God for removal of problems and tensions. You
will enjoy the problems and tensions and hence, there is nothing to pray God for
something. Your prayer to God must be due to your attraction to Him for His excellent
personality. Your praise of God must be based on your love for His divine personality.
But, today we find most of the people praying God for sanction of continuous sweet
dishes. Therefore, the desire for something gets smashed if you know the secret of
this concept. Hence, there is no meaning in wishing somebody for a happy new
year because continuous happiness bores and leads to misery only. The
aspiration for continuous happiness through out the year is based on foolishness and
ignorance.
On the New Year, you must pray God thinking His divine personality and get attracted
for His divine quality. You must at least achieve one of His basic qualities, which is
enjoying both happy scenes and tragic scenes in the creation. On the Telugu New Year
day, people generally take sweets and sour items mixed as offering of God (Prasadam),
which shows the same concept of enjoyment of both happy and tragic movements in
the life. This is the divine knowledge in nutshell present in all the divine scriptures of all
religions. This is essence of the Gita, preached by the god. He enjoyed continuously in
His life and even in the last situation, when He was shot dead by a hunter. This is
essence to be learnt and practiced by every human being in this world. And this secrete
should be shared to your friends and fellow mates to keep up the peace and prosperity
in our surroundings.
V.V.RAO ,
National coordinator VeTA
Convener, Election Watch A.P,
Convener, Social audit council on information Right,
Coordinator, Forum for intellectual initiative -Hyderabad.
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