From the time we are born we seek happiness. We seek it through food, drink, peaceful sleep, good clothes, good home with facilities and other comforts. Our entire existence is geared towards fulfilment of desires and being happy. Happiness is our goal in life.
Happiness is an elusive goal. We seek it; we work for it and achieve the object of our desire. We are happy for some time. Then the happiness fades away and again we seek it by fulfilling another desire. We can see this behaviour even in a very small child who has no knowledge of what is desire or fulfilment or happiness. From where does the child learn to search for happiness? What is it that forces us to yearn for and work for happiness all our lives?
All religions of the world declare that we are not the body. We are the Immortal Soul. The nature of the Soul is Bliss. The Super Soul or God is in Eternal Bliss. We are part of that Super Soul and Eternal Bliss. We are now in the human body and living on Earth. But the soul within knows its origin and seeks to go back. It yearns for bliss – the Eternal Bliss of God. We do not know how to go back to Godhead and be established in that peace and bliss. So we seek happiness by fulfilment of material desires. Such happiness is only a shadow of the Eternal Bliss.
The Supreme Power, the individual soul and illusion – Maya – are the three permanent components of the eternal Universal Drama of Life. God governs the individual soul and Maya (the illusion of duality, that we are different from God). In order to overcome this illusion that we are different from God and from each other we need the help of God. God does not help us directly. He comes in the form of ParamGuru who is a realised master and shows us how to overcome Maya and become one with Him. Follow the ParamGuru and reach God and be always in a state of happiness and bliss.
The great masters or ParamGurus teach us the way back to Godhead. They have knowledge and inner experience of the path and know how to reach that Supreme State. When we follow their teachings we reach that State of Bliss. Mantra Japa of SitaRam, Kundalini Maha Yoga Systems, meditation and following the teachings of the Param Guru in a systematic and disciplined manner help us to reach the state of bliss. Live in bhakti and surrender to God and ParamGuru and be in bliss. Once we reach this state, though we live in this world we will not rush madly after material desires.
Remember always, you are not the body. You are the Immortal Soul – the Child of God. The Bliss is within you. There is no satisfaction in temporary happiness of the material world. Find your roots and realise that you are Divine and full of Bliss. Today, on the birthday of this body, blessings to all that you receive Wisdom and Abundance from Goddess Saraswati and are always happy.
