The Key to Happiness - Svadyaya for
DLS meditation and satsung Feb 9, 2013
Almighty
Lord! Prompt these sadhakas to ever walk the path that leads to their own highest
blessedness! Radiant Divinities! We receive from others what we make them do.
Sometimes we invite temptations; sometimes we invite aggravated situations by
working for them. We play with life in such a way that things do not merely
happen to us, but we make them happen to us. If you have keen introspection,
then after a situation has occurred you find, “Yes, indeed, it is I who worked
for it.”
It
is said; “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” Mystics have prayed to
God: “O Lord, save me from myself.” Many a time, from inside we harbour
thoughts and motives that attract certain situations towards us, and then we
blame God! You think that you are doing all these things and no one knows. But
God does know. There is someone within you and He is nothing but Consciousness,
Awareness. Prajnana. He is jnana-svarupa (knowledge-incarnation). Nothing
misses Him. Therefore, it is necessary that seekers and sadhakas be wise, not
go in self-deception.
Life
is a mirror. You see in it what you show it. If you make a pleasant face, a
pleasant face looks back at you. If you make an unpleasant face, an unpleasant
face looks back at you. Happiness and misery, favourable and unfavourable
environments depend to a very large extent on our state of mind. Happiness is not
contained in things, situation or environment outside. It is in how we look at
it through our mind. It is the situations within.
If
that inner state is adjusted and corrected, then nothing has power to give us
any experience except that which we give to it. A shepherd was asked whether he
liked the weather on that day. He answered: “Knowing that I have no control
over weather, knowing that I cannot change it, long ago I decided that whatever
weather comes I will like it. And therefore, now I am at peace. Instead of
always trying to get only that thing that I like, I decided that it is wiser to
like whatever things I get.” This is the key to happiness. The key is inside.
It is the state of mind we create within us that ultimately has the effect of
creating happiness or misery for us. A picture does not paint itself. It is the
artist with his brush who paints it. Let us apply this truth: “I make my day. I
make my happiness and misery. I make my darkness and light. I create it from
within.” Apply this truth and then see what happens.
God
Bless You!
Swami
Chidananda
