Happiness is not a thing which comes from without yourself, YOU create it with the thoughts you think!
Namaste dear spiritual brothers and sisters!
Greetings on this wonderful day of our Lord!
Here is a wonderful text of which I found quite illuminating and truly inspiring and I thank you for taking your precious time to read this humble article. J
Yeah, Happiness is not a thing which comes from without yourself, YOU create it with the thoughts you think..
Man Is Engaged In An Eternal Quest
For That “Something Else”
He Hopes Will Bring Him Happiness.
For Those Individual Souls Who Sought
And Found God, The Search Is Over.
He/She Is That Something Else!
– Paramahansa Yogananda
On Earth everyone is seeking happiness. They try to find it in people, in things, in drugs, and in a million other false gods and symbolic alternative lovers! What they don’t realize is that it is impossible to find happiness in this world without God as your main focus and lover. You cannot find happiness with adulterous lovers symbolically speaking! However, there is a two-step process to finding happiness because there are people who have found God – like Evangelical Christians – but they are not happy. They are not happy because they are not right with themselves, even though they have found God!
Happiness does not come from God; it comes from a state of consciousness and mental perspective that is based on believing in God. It is only when you learn to think from your Spiritual/ Christ/ Buddha/ Krishna/ Moses/ Mohammed/ Mighty I AM Presence/ Transcendental/ I AM University/ God Consciousness that happiness is even possible!
There are only two ways of thinking. From the consciousness listed above or from the negative ego/ fear-based/ separative/ dualistic/ lower self consciousness! As Kuan Yin likes to say, “God is the Pearl of Great Price!” I think Kuan Yin was trying to save Buddhism from those who tried to kick God out of Buddhism! So what Yogananda says here is totally true. Yogananda chimes in, that he found Yoga/Ananda because yoga means “union with God” and ananda means “bliss”! The only way one can find bliss is through union with God, to which this quote refers!
However, the key understanding here is also that it must be an integrated understanding of God – not just a heavenly understanding of God. For God has universal laws on all levels including the conscious level and the subconscious level – as well as the physical and earthly levels! All levels must be mastered to achieve happiness. In this world people study Spiritual things but they are totally undeveloped in consciousness and Spiritual psychology – so even though they have found God they have not found themselves, so happiness will elude them! For happiness is a state of mind that has its identity in God as Yogananda said!
Dr. Joshua David Stone www.IAMUniversity.org
True Happiness comes from knowing who you are, why you are here and when you know the laws of the Universe and when you live them, when you live your spiritual ideals for example when you know and apply that forgiveness is the way to happiness ;)
There are many prerequisites for being able to be and stay happy no matter what.
The great secret of happiness and inner peace that everyone in life is searching for lies in achieving a proper attitude and perspective towards life. If you think with your negative ego/fear based/separative/ materialistic/ lower self-mind you will live in a self-created hell or negativity of your own creation.
If you think with your Spiritual/Christ/Buddha/God Mind you will live in a self-created heaven and positivity of your own creation. Your feelings come from how you think not from people or outside circumstances. So basically happiness and inner peace is a matter of being trained to think properly for it is our thoughts that create our reality!
Most people think that they have to go to a movie, play, a party or be entertained to be happy. This is illusion. Happiness, joy, even bliss is a choice. It’s your choice! You can choose to be happy all the time for no reason whatsoever.
Inner peace and happiness not only is right attitude and perspective, but also learning to recognize that you are one with God. The negative ego or separative mind in truth doesn’t even really exist. It is a figment of mankind’s imagination. If one recognizes they are an incarnation of God, and so is everyone else, and we are all one with each other and God, why shouldn’t we be happy? We have and are everything when we see the true reality of things!
Another aspect of inner peace and happiness is learning to quiet the mind. One does not have to think to be happy. Just being or not thinking at all and enjoying what I will call here a quiet mind is incredibly peaceful. So happiness and inner peace comes from thinking and learning not to think when appropriate. In a later chapter I will give the twenty-two key attitudes to developing happiness and inner peace which will make this even easier to understand! So never forget, “As a man thinketh so is he!” “You are what you think!” “Change your perspective, change your life!” “Be it done to you as you believe!”
The enlightened being and integrated Master lives in a consciousness of transcending duality and remains even minded in profit and loss, pleasure and pain, sickness and health, victory and defeat, praise and criticism.
The enlightened being has no attachments, only preferences so remains happy no matter what happens in life. Everything is seen as a Spiritual test to see if that enlightened being can remain in inner peace and happiness.
Inspired, committed and ready to develop your Mind?
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