HAPPINESS EXISTS WITHIN YOU, HERE AND NOW
by Atman Nityananda / blog
You don’t need any specific external condition to be happy and complete. The only thing you need to do is search within yourself to find what you already have: peace, wholeness, happiness without limits or conditions.
Desire is a sign of a lack of wholeness, satisfaction, and happiness in the here and now.
If we experienced wholeness, deep satisfaction, and happiness here and now, at every moment, why would we seek something outside of ourselves? Something that would make us feel better, to feel satisfaction, pleasure, happiness?
And what is it that prevents us from being happy, complete, and satisfied here and now in the conditions we find ourselves in?
Most people believe that external conditions (people, situations, environment) are what prevent us from being happy here and now. So, they struggle in every way to change external conditions in order to feel good.
By constantly moving outward, they fail to realize that the problem lies within them. That it is their own mind that is the obstacle to experiencing wholeness, peace, love, and happiness.
The mind, and only the mind, is the cause of our happiness or misery.
A rajasic-tamasic mind, restless, ever-moving, extroverted, full of greed, lust, gluttony, ambitions, fear, and anger, is a source of pain and misery.
A sattvic mind, calm, peaceful, introverted, established in its source, Consciousness, is a source of harmony, joy, peace, happiness, and wholeness.
Change your mind, and the world will change. After all, the world you see is not an objective reality but your own mind.
Read about the gunas here (Sattva-Rajas-Tamas): https://atmannityananda.org/2022/09/29/the-three-gunas//
The ‘secret’ to a plentiful life, a life of harmony, happiness and contentment is to have a sattvic mind free from desires and ego and to live in every moment in conscious contact with our true Self (Consciousness).
🌺 Peace, Love, Harmony
atmannityanada 