Happiness
Due to certain actions, we experience pleasure or grief. So,
first let us understand where these experiences happen in us. So, what we need
to understand is that it is only in our mind that we feel happy or sad etc.,
meaning all that happens to us from the external stimulus are processed by the
mind and intellect which decides if it is good/bad, happiness/sadness etc.
So, what we can clearly understand is that the actual place
where we feel happy or sad is in the arena of our mind!!!
Mind by nature is outgoing, what do we mean by this? It’s
very simple mind by nature cannot sit silent and it keeps jumping from one
activity to another and cannot remains silent. Because of which its works in an overdrive
and intellect also functions in similar manner to keep the minds confusion and
thoughts at check. If this is the situation, there is bound to be actions and
reactions which affects the person and he experiences these dyads (happiness/sadness,
pleasure/griefs etc.).
When such is the situation it is practically impossible to experience
happiness all the time as the mind is completely occupied with activities in
search of happiness from external sources, though happiness happens in the
arena of the mind, it confuses itself by getting attached to the stimulus and
thinks that it (stimulus) is the source of his/her happiness.
Lottery winning (Stimulus)-----------> Mind receives/processes
information ----------> Experiences happiness within (experienced within).
Now in the above situation for a poor person, if he wins
a lottery as above he will feel very happy, at the same time when a person who
is not interested in money wins the lottery does he feel happiness?
Absolutely Not.
So, from the above example we can clearly understand that
happiness is within and not from outside as the person who is not interested in
money does not feel any happiness. So, stimulus here does not decide on what we
feel.
In simple context, the source of happiness is within us and
we must look inwards to achieve a type of happiness that is unconditional and
unaffected of the things that are happening and surrounding us.
Meaning the happiness that was experienced when one wins a
lottery can be replicated without he winning the same lottery and enjoy same state of
blissfulness. In fact, the inner bliss that we are discussing here is say 1000
times more potent than what you enjoyed when one had
won the lottery.
It is this we call it as absolute happiness (in Vedanta it’s
called Ananda), which is ever existent (Sat in Vedanta) and it is in the form
of absolute awareness (Cit in Vedanta)
That’s the reason the nature of our true self is explained
as Absolute existence, Absolute consciousness and Absolute Bliss which is
nothing but Satchitanada.
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