Most of us are taught one of the significant life lessons backward!
When you Have something (some material object)
Then you can Do something (for some material achievement)
Then you will BE HAPPY.
This approach to life makes Being happy conditional on Having and then Doing something.
It is drilled into modern society’s children from the beginning!
We learn to postpone Being Happy when we have achieved some medals or highest scores in exams, had the most expensive car, bought the biggest home, married a particular person, or had our perfect little child, or the coveted job.
Do you see? This list could go on and on and …especially since our desires also keep changing (sometimes almost 180 degrees!) during different phases of life.
Being Happy becomes an ever sliding and shifting object, constantly out of reach.
Our modern education system is designed to hammer the same backward concept. Have the best grades, have the best education so you can Do it all to have the best career, to have the best of all you desire, and then you will BE happy!
Somewhere along the way, as a side dish, the concept of soul and God is spoon-fed to make the whole platter look wholesome.
How many people are on anti-depressant medications? How many people feel empty despite having it ‘all? How many people live and die chasing that ever-elusive destination of ‘being happy’?
Let us cross over to the other direction———
How about living life the other way around?
Being Happy
Then out of that happiness, Doing something
Out of which we will meet our needs and wants
This approach is Success!
Being Happy and Peaceful has to be unconditional.
Babies are born naturally and unconditionally joyful, and how freely expressive they are!
We are Whole Divine Beings. Our very essence is Joy and Love.
We need to untrain our life-long training and come back to our essence self.
If we don’t find ourselves unconditionally happy, we have to practice, practice and practice to bring ourselves to be joyful.
Yes! It has to be regardless of our situation, conditions, and our immediate physical reality.
Yes, It can be challenging. Yes, it is tough at times; yes, it is definitely, thousand times over, much easier said than done….,
But the beautiful thing is that as we start being in our essence of Joy, our troublesome situations, conditions, and physical reality starts shifting too. Millions of people have demonstrated that it does indeed happen that way!!
Or even if otherwise troublesome situations don’t change, then at least you start to respond very differently and positively due to the enormous shift in your perspective.
Which direction are you going to be heading?
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Blessed Be!
Ritu
