“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or
unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the
nature of those events themselves:
Which do you think contributes more to personal
happiness: What happens to you or the way you respond to what happens?
Imagine an outing at your favorite inn. You’re being
served the succulent sizzles and the manna-dew. Amidst the salubrious, cozy and
Utopian milieu comes the waiter and spills the sauce all over your pristine
dress! Now there are two options at your disposal; react and spoil your
composure or respond and get the better of the predicament. However to my
temperament the latter suits the better!
Abrahm hicks said that “if you
will pay more attention to what is flowing from you towards something rather
than focusing on your ill-fortunes things will go better right away.” Bible
time and again reiterates that “give ye joy for mourning and beauty for ashes.”
Spirituality consists of teaching an individual the art of responding to the
most domineering and egregious conditions so that he or she can transform the
prickly thistles to fragrant flowers.
It is not possible to create a
completely favorable environment. Even the wealthiest person is unhappy because
of ill-health; one may be sick of poverty, and yet another of ill-relationships
– the list is perpetual. We can, with a little effort, see that is humanly
impossible to grab hold of each amenity under the sun and thus should learn to
appreciate the worth of what we have instead of weeping for the elusive!
Happiness at its root arises from
a divine understanding of this drama of life. It is said that
Buddha was a Bhikhhu – a beggar – but acted as if he were an emperor of the
emperors! The consciousness of men is beyond the worldly bondage and thus it is
simply insane to say that the external world adds to happiness. Bliss and joy
are ethereal and thus omnipresent; what happens on the periphery is immaterial,
what actually matters is our response towards the occurrence.
Scrutinizing and evaluating the grand
scheme of things men must claim and assert his freedom over the material world
by not letting it intrude in his territory of being which is all happiness. Understanding
the real nature of evanescent and the imperishable, the frivolous grievances,
futile prying and all sorts of ‘involuntary reflexes’ must stop. The moment we
begin to ‘respond’ the adversities stop acting as if they were the berlin
blockade and change to the doors that Saint Peter guards – as did the banished
Duke Senior in ‘As you like’ written by William Shakespeare!
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