Role of Happiness in A Meaningful Life?

Every form of life on this planet is meaningful. Even if we don't consider ourselves as an important part of this planet/universe, the environment that we live in, that supports our lives, this fact (whether we are important part or not) remains unperturbed. Whether we consider ourselves to be very important or not important at all, things remain as they are. Just like an ocean filled with water, which is nothing but drops of water containing other minerals. Each drop of water in the ocean has some role to play and they are playing there role in there community called ocean. Each of them has characteristic similar to the ocean or we can say that ocean has characteristic similar to each drop of water it contains. If there is no water there is no ocean, and if there are no drops, there is no water.

Meaning of Life

Meaning of life for each one of us depends on the role we play in our life, in our family, in our society, at work. Even if we are not aware of our role we are still playing it, there is still a meaning of our life. Sometimes we are not aware of this meaning, our role; but our family, our society knows that and often makes us realize this. That is why we often get offended or excited on hearing there remarks that reaches us occasionally.

Life doesn't attach a good or bad tag to anyone of us, as life is a creation of nature which is abundant and needs each one of us for one purpose or another. Good or bad are reactions bound to circumstances and situations. The judgment of good or bad also depends on several other factors. So, nobody has a right to say that he/she (for them self) is bad, as every behavior is guided by the surrounding atmosphere which culminates into our nature/behavior. More on meaning of life or life an illusion of mind.

Role of Happiness

Happiness is an indication of our level of satisfaction with our role in life (more in satisfaction an open secret to happiness). It also indicates our level of involvement in our role (our duties). If we are happy we are actually doing our work whole heartedly, if we are unhappy then definitely we are not involved in our work (physically or mentally) whole heartedly or at all. An unhappy state of mind isn't just bad for a person, a single role or job, it effects every sphere of our life and of our surrounding in a positive or negative way.

A meaningful life is definitely a life which consists of happiness. Choice to be happy isn't always a result of some external factor, it is more or less an individual choice. If I want to be happy I can be happy as now I see things in a different light for example I think of present circumstances, situations as 'What we get is what we pay for' or an appropriate reaction to our actions or deeds (as every action is said to have an equal and opposite reaction).

If I want to be unhappy then I can try any of the many excuses lying around (by the way an unhappy person isn't completely immersed in his/her duties/role and has therefore enough time to collect such excuses from different sources).

Role of Happiness in A Meaningful Life

Human life isn't anything but a biological cycle, we are all passing from one stage to another stage, whether we think our life as a meaningful life surrounded with happiness and happy people or we take our life as rubbish, unworthy of living, useless. Time is ticking and so is the life, our show is going on, we are already playing our role (of a happy or ... person).

Life is a period of time, a collection of moments and its is up to us to waste these precious moments without enjoying them and being happy or be involved at every step in our work, with our role and improve our actions so as to attract better reactions. It is better to start playing a role which we consider to be a positive role for our family, our society and this planet instead of worrying and blaming something or someone.

We are all responsible for what happens to us, our life, our family and our planet and happiness in our heart, in our work, in our role can only make things better for all of us. Life is simple, enjoy.

Philosophy Happiness

Happiness seems to be an art of living. It is available to those who seek it. Today we have all forms of comforts available at our disposal but we are not able to enjoy them, earlier before renaissance i.e. industrialization things were quiet simple to understand and follow, now a days things have become very complicated.

Today we have good beds but we are not always able to enjoy sleep (a part of our society is today suffering from sleeping disorder). Today we have enough food but we don't find it appetizing. We have 24 hours in a day but we can't find even half an our to relax, to enjoy freedom.

Why has this happened, why are we unable to enjoy the way nature and wild animal, insects, plants and flowers enjoy life.

Philosophy of happiness seems to be independent of external factors, happiness is not dependent on resources or comforts in life, its beyond these factors.

You can read more on happiness in previous posts philosophy of happiness, where can we find happiness,

Where Can We Find Happiness?

In Search of Happiness

How do we find happiness and where? There is no definite place where one can find happiness. There is no single abode for happiness either its available to everyone everywhere or for someone it is nowhere. Its strange but its true. Anyway, we are not supposed to consider negative things here as this is not the right place for such discussions. Negative things leads to negative realizations in life and positive things to positive realization. We can think of this world as good or bad (although both are true) but in reality what we get is what we sought.

There are so many ways to find happiness. A child can find happiness in a dress, a terrorist can find happiness in explosives and explosions. So, it is you who decides where can you find similarity between happiness and an activity (or happiness without any activity). I will like to list some common places and instances of happiness in our day to day life. A happiness that frequently strikes our vision, the most common philosophy of happiness.

Common instances of Happiness

• A writer can find happiness in his/her writings.
  
  
• A reader can find happiness in books/magazines/periodicals.
  
  
• A lover can find happiness in dating his/her love.
  
  
• A webmaster can find happiness in successful maintenance of web services.
  
  
• A teenager can find happiness in his/her looks.
  
  
• An internet marketer can find happiness in growing sales.
  
  
• A husband/wife can find happiness in company of his/her spouse.
  
  
• A job seeker can find happiness in a job.
  
  
• A forex trader can find happiness in profitable forex trades.
  
  
• A philosopher can find happiness in his/her philosophy.
  
  
• An actor can find happiness in acting.
  
  
• A girl can find happiness in her beauty and fitness.
  
  
• A blogger can find happiness in his/her blog.
  
  
• An artist can find happiness in art.
  
  
• A model can find happiness in cat walks.
  
  
• An animal can find happiness in food.
  
  
• An astronomer can find happiness in searching a new star/planet.
  
  
• Parents can find happiness in child.
  
  
• A teacher can find happiness in students.
  
  
• A newspaper in its circulations.
  
  
• A press release in reach.
  
  
• An athlete in sports.
  
  
• An adulterated adult in porn.
  
  
• A sick person in wellness.

These are some common places and instances of finding happiness, although it is not everlasting or permanent as its time bound and action bound. The moment that action is over or that situation changes this feeling vanishes. It can be there for a day or hour or some seconds and absconds the very next moment.

Supported Happiness

The type of happiness that we just saw above is not an absolute happiness. I call it supported happiness, as it is only available when there is an external support, the moment this support is lost, we loose that feeling immediately.

Supported happiness is also responsible for mood swings to some extent, the day we can't find a reason to smile, our mood hits back. This supported happiness isn't a real happiness but its virtual. Its just a glimpse of what actually exists, it only provides us with a shade of happiness. Today we all live with it and that is all we expect in our day to day life because we actually not aware of any other type of happiness which can last forever, which exists without a support.

Philosophy of Happiness In Our Lives

Philosophy of happiness is also an integral part of philosophy of life. It makes life more positive, more rewarding, a lovely place to be around. There are actually very common and easily adaptable principles to understand and retain happiness in our lives forever but in today's complicated environment little, easily manageable things too look very complicated and thus difficult to follow and understand.

Here, I can give you 10 tips to be happy, 3 ways to maintain happiness (which can be a future post) etc., which I think most people look for in there online searches. This posts is not meant to provide a quick fix for happiness, this post is meant to use some processing power of your brain in mentation, in order to reach some conclusion on your own as conclusions that we reach after intro-inspections are more stable and effective in our life. I know providing any brief, easy steps to solution are not going to throw enough light or solve the problem in providing any happiness or its philosophy at all. I've already covered some brief topics on happiness in this blog, you can also read them if you like.

Here are some earlier posts:-

What is Happiness

Philosophy of Happiness

Philosophy of Work, Money & Happiness Part-III

Life is Simple and Easy, Enjoy Life

In order to be happy and understand philosophy of happiness one must understand its background and environment in which it can be cultivated and survived. If we are able to grasp the basics of happiness we can ourselves search for tools which are most appropriate for us.

What is Happiness?

Happiness plays a major role in our lives. It can make or mar any life, any life means everything surviving on this planet whether its human beings, boys, girls, students, couple, children, teachers, engineers, doctors, or even wild animals, pet animals, sea animals, plants, trees, life within sea-beds and everywhere else.

We cannot get happiness in market for money (otherwise happiness would have been a private property of rich and famous), from other people with force or by playing little tricks of our mind.

Happiness is not a limited resource like bio fuel, money, success, beauty, power, luxury etc. It is available in abundance everywhere and anyone can enjoy as much as he/she likes to enjoy and retain.

Happiness is recession proof (so no need to worry on that end), its safety is guaranteed, its not taxable, there is no custom duty or local taxes on keeping and carrying this non-tangible commodity.

Happiness plays a major role in things that go in and around this world. It has a role in global politics, eco-system, environment issues, terrorist problems, malfunctioning of body system yet it is the most neglected and least discussed topic.

We all understand and realize importance of happiness in our life, in life of our family members, yet we are highly negligent when it comes to adopting simple principles of life and happiness in our life.

We think happiness to be a counter product of other things that we are busy doing. We think that things will change soon with our efforts which we assume will bring prosperity and happiness in our life.

We work day and night to accumulate more resources which we hope will lead more happiness in our life. We don't realize that in doing so we are already breaking some laws of nature. Life isn't about a single achievement or throwing all resources for a single task, life is enjoying a bit of everything whether its work, rest, family, music, children, society, nature or whatever comes to your mind. Everything has a role in our life and that role also leads to happiness, if you cannot find it now in present circumstances then what is the guarantee that you will find it tomorrow, with your present efforts.

More to follow.. in next post 'Where can we find happiness?'.

Everybody has a right to Survive

Nature not only protects every form of life but it also bestows the right to survive. We humans are humans and cannot think or act like nature we can only try imitating the nature as per our understanding.

Everyone has a right to survive
May be we have forgot this message of the nature but environment problems, shrinking ozone layer, economic recession, ecological balance are all a clear indication that nature is not supporting our actions and in order to survive we must make some changes and improvements in our lifestyle.

What we think or know may not be correct? All our theories of life and happiness are based on our on interpretation of law of nature, we increased production using artificial techniques, we tried to add taste using artificial flavors, self life using preservatives. Now we are struggling with health problems, some dreaded disease.

We cannot escape from nature
Some of us think that they can stay away from natural surrounding (that they have created) and protect themselves from its negative consequence. Well, it is not feasible, a man cannot survive in artificial environment, an environment which is surrounded by non-living things like air conditioner, water purifier, electronic communicator etc.

If we are living thing then its our natural tendency to enjoy natural surrounding. Artificial objects and surroundings are only non-living and suitable to store non-living things. If a living things is stored there (stays there) he/she is likely to develop some problem because its not his nature.

Enjoy the right to survive and Enjoy Life
Let everyone enjoy this life, whether its plants or animals, flora or fauna, insects and you too will enjoy this life. Nature knows how to maintain this balance of survival and maintain the right of survival for everyone.

Philosophy of Love

Do We Really Love Anyone?

I hope you've already read the last post 'Philosophy of Love Vs Philosophy of Lust'. I know that it is easy to read but it is not always easy to study. Study requires attentive reading which further need calmness.

The love is actually a natural phenomenon, a formless object like happiness. We believe that love is guided by appearance and how we are treated but actually love is over and above these things. It is beyond any expectation or promise. I think we are at fault when we misunderstand lust as love.

Lust is a inferior quality of love, which has a number of limitations, and is frequently encountered in day to day life.

Do we really love anyone? Like nature. I don't know who you love but if there is love (not lust) in any life, and it is really love then I don't think there are any regrets left in this life, as love is the essence of life.

We can love anyone or anything it can be a purpose, a job, a work, a person, an activity or whatever it is you fall in love with. Love gives a meaning to life and this meaning is not temporary, time bound, its permanent, something which is forever to stay, at least in this life (IFF IT IS LOVE!).

Do you think we have this love in our life????

Philosophy of Love Vs Lust

Philosophy of Love Vs Philosophy of Lust

Love and lust are easily interchanged these days. Commonly most people cannot even see any major difference between the two. Common thinking is love is followed by lust or lust is followed by love or both of them mean one and the same thing except the fact that one (love) is a polite way to express another (lust).

Anyway, what is to follow is a post that I found on Sadhak Group at Yahoo (which means I am just a medium and not the source). I hope you'll enjoy reading this post on Philosophy of Love Versus Philosophy of Lust.

Love versus Lust

Worldly people due to their ignorance, do not understand the true nature of Love. They regard lust to be the same as Love. Lust is seen in most beings, especially more so in evil people, devils, demons, fiends, animals etc. Only the liberated Souls are capable of true Love.

1. In lust both parties want to receive something from the other, while in Love, a devotee (lover) wants to offer everything to the Lord (Beloved).

2. In lust a person wants to satisfy his senses, while in Love he wants to serve the Lord (beloved), without any desire for personal gain (without wanting anything in return).

3. Lust is physical, while Love is spiritual, it is divine.

4. Lust involves delusion and pain, while Love is totally free from delusion and pain, and involves emancipation and infinite bliss.

5. In lust there is attachment and dependence, while in Love there is
relinquishment and independence.

6. Lust is selfish, while Love is selfless.

7. One who is lustful, becomes a slave to the object of lust, while Bhagwaan Himself becomes a slave to a devotee that is capable of Love.

8. Lust changes into insipidity, while love enhances every moment,
intensifying into a blissful state.

9. Lust is born of need, i.e. out of something lacking, while Love sprouts from completeness and the lover (devotee) remains happy in the happiness of the beloved (God).

10. In lust there is desire to derive pleasure, while in Love a lover
(devotee) wants to please the Beloved (Bhagwaan, Lord).

11. Lust leads to hell, while Love leads to the abode of God (the Beloved).

12. In lust, the parties involved ever remain two, while in Love, the lover (devotee) and the Beloved (Lord) become one and the same.

From "Sadhak Sanjivani" in Englishi by Swami Ramuskhdasji

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