The unknown cause of happiness

Favorable experiences of all the senses of our body create happiness. Fulfillment of desire brings the happiness. Achievement of wealth, authority and power gives the happiness. Everyone knows where from the happiness arrives but only few people know how to continue the happiness.

As such happiness is an auto response to favorable circumstances, desired events and good thoughts, even though, sometime, the negative traits and emotions of our mind do not allow experiencing happiness with all good reasons. It is well known that our wisdom can play a greater role in managing our emotions, expectation, thoughts, belief and pattern of thinking, which contribute to our conscious efforts for maintaining happy state of mind

It is true that happiness is a state of mind created in response to favorable outside environment or positive internal thoughts but the external environment or internal thoughts go on changing so the state of happiness is also goes on changing.

Let us understand why happiness does not remain long-lasting. We know that accomplishment of desire creates happiness. So check it out the status of a desire from its creation to accomplishment. The creation of desire is its birth, the activity to fulfill the desire is its life and accomplishment of desire is its end or death. Like all other living beings a desire also has life-cycle of birth-activity-death. The birth of a desire is an event with full of hope. Life of desire is full of the activities in present. At the end the desire does not exist either due to accomplishment or termination. When it ends as accomplishment it gives happiness, but that is also a temporary phase which disappears with the passage of time. And we need to feel happy continuously forever, so our mind creates another desire and then more and more desires to repeat the experience of happiness.

Recall the memories that how many times your various desires had been accomplished in the past in your life, then why we are not happy for those but awaiting for next accomplishment to become happy? 

A birth and an end both are the events of a very short duration but life or the activities is long lasting, till we alive. Our activities or work of choice is a purpose of our life and we can be happy for the reason of our existence. When we do the work of our choice, our happiness would be linked with an action instead of the result, so that we would be happy while working continuously till we work. Lord Krishna said in the Hindu Holy book “Gita” to enjoy the work and leave the result on him. The purpose of advice of Lord is to make us detached from the result to keep our mind in present activities for enjoying happiness continuously throughout life.

Therefore, select an activity of your choice and make a very high goal. Detach from the result on account of positive attitude, strong belief, trust and faith, then live in the present involving in and enjoying the work. The persistent hard works required to achieve higher and difficult goal provide more happiness, and its accomplishment will not only create happiness but also create confidence, self esteem and great sense of achievement, that will condition the mind for permanent state of well being and happiness. Furthermore, if your achievement would be beneficial to other than you, your family, friends, neighbors and people living in your world, then it would make you feel worth living. The sense of worth living is the happy state of mind.

There is a difference between enjoyment and happiness. One can enjoy abundant wealth and all the material facilities of the world but will never satisfy from them. Enjoyment is a need of mind where as satisfaction is a need of soul. The satisfaction of soul is extremely necessary for enduring happiness in life. The satisfaction cannot be achieved by getting any amount of wealth. But great satisfaction can be derived from by giving to others without any expectation in return.

When we had born in this world, all facilities were existed for our living and development. Food, water, cloths, house, roads, transportation, electricity, medicines and all the means of comforts were available. This entire development was existed, for which we had not done anything. It was done and left for us by the people who had come and gone before us. This was the contribution made by our previous generations for living our life better. So everyone takes birth in this world with that debt. Our conscious mind might have forgotten this debt but soul is well aware of it. That is why most people always feel incomplete in their life. This incompleteness creates lack of satisfaction in life which does not allow us to be happy. Therefore, in order to satisfy our soul and create happiness, everyone has to return the debt by contributing to the world little more than he or she has utilized.

I would like to mention here a very important message of the universe. Universe is designed to grow. But if an individual works only for his or her living and does not contribute little more than he or she has utilized, then there will be no further development of the world. Universe requires the contributions from every human being for coming generations and its continuous growth. So urge of giving contributions has been implanted in the soul of each and every human being. Therefore, no one can be happy unless he or she fulfills this requirement of the universe.

Most people remain unknown to this secret act of universe. But, even unknowingly, we all have strong desire for creating and giving something more to universe for accomplishment of our life before we leave this world. If we create something more than our requirement and give to our world with generosity, God compensates us for this noble act by blessing happiness, peace of mind and bliss of soul. And an experiencing the bliss in our being is the state of enduring happiness!

--- By Dr. Jayanti Rusat
The content of this article is from my book, “Self Elevation: creating wealth, wisdom and peace".

Altruistic Love

When the love is unconditional, a selfless innocent bond for no reason, seeking only each other’s existence and well beings then it is an altruistic love or love in its pure form. Nature has gifted highest level of such love between mother and child.

Altruistic love is a highest form of pervasive energy in the universe, which is beyond space and time. Therefore, physical presence of a person or acquisition of a thing is not required to love. Love never imposes possessiveness or desires to control but bestows freedom with loved one. Love has no bound. Irrespective of distance or time, the bond of altruistic love empowers those whom we love and provides us with a purpose of living.

Singularity is a pure form of universe while duality is delusion of living beings. Singularity is manifested in the form of love and duality is expressed in the form of hate. Love connects people, unites them and creates oneness. Whereas hate separates people, divides them and makes isolation. When we love to everyone and everything, we are in harmony with the universe; then universe bestows happiness and peace on us.

We realize love as positive feeling and hate as negative feeling. Love creates protective energy whereas hate creates destructive energy. Psychologists say that the love and hate are opposite forms of emotions but they have a common root in the relationship. If any type of relationship is not established, then there will be neither love nor hate. Love and hate both do not exist at one time; as such love does not exist during hate and hate cannot appear in the presence of love. Even avoiding is a cool form of hate which is opposite to love. Love creates liking which indicates its presence. Presence of love gives strength, confidence, and courage whereas absence of love creates doubts, fear, mistrust and unfaithfulness.

Love can be communicated even without verbal language. Emotional feeling of love creates vibrations; those vibrations radiate in the space and communicate to whom you love. And no feedback is required because this paranormal communication also creates knowing within you, which makes you aware that you have been loved by those whom you love. You will be happy when your loved one enjoys, even that enjoyment is not being shared with you. And your loved one too knows that you are happy in their enjoyment even that was not shared with you.

Love is a powerful emotion that creates such a state of mind which makes life worth living. Love is protective, preventive, caring, sharing, healing and encouraging to self and others. Virtues like humanity, compassion, generosity, benevolence, politeness, nobleness, righteousness etc are the expressions of altruistically loving person. And altruistic love reveals in the actions and behaviors of the person as like devotion, dedication, sacrifice, selfless services, contribution, philanthropy, charity, donations and alms.

The world has many such loving people. That is why this world is a better place for living. And that trend of loving is expanding now a day which is a positive sign of elevating consciousness of people in our world.

Love from Dr. Jayanti Rusat, author of "Self Elevation: creating wealth, wisdom and peace".

Soul's journey

Material universe is an expression of universal consciousness of Supreme Being. It has taken about fourteen billions of years for creating lives on earth and then about 50 millions of years for elevating individual life at the level of human beings.

We have been, in the form of soul, expressing our lives in this physical plane of the universe for millions of years during the journey from a lowest quality of body like amoeba to the highest quality of human being in the series of reincarnations. Body is mortal but the soul is immortal. Body follows the laws of material world and soul follows the laws of spiritual world. Body takes birth, grows, degenerates and dies. Soul never dies or takes birth; it just exists, and changes bodies like we change cloths. Experiences, memories, karma and wisdom stay with the soul. Thus, information carried forward from earlier lives is imprinted in such a form that the brains of our reincarnated bodies are unable to unfold them. But, their effects appear in every new life.

The concept of self elevation is based on our belief of existence of soul and its immortality. Desire to be immortal is a natural instinct of the human being. We know that physical death is an absolute and inevitable truth. Therefore the desire to be immortal has been transformed into a wish of keeping our name alive even after death. This wish is a virtue and not the greed because the wish for living in people’s hearts after death motivates us to perform good actions during life. Perhaps that wish also inspires us to reproduce an inheritor so that our name linked with them can remain alive. Noble actions and reproduction of our beings are requirement of universe for developing the living world. Therefore, our belief in existence of soul and its immortality is in accordance with the universe’s plan.

The physical evolution of bodies on material plane is ongoing process of the universe. Body gets evolution while soul gets elevation. Bodily evolutions are as per the laws of biological science where as soul can be elevated as per the laws of spirituality.

Our soul has been provided the body and mind to make successful journey in this physical plane. Body performs worldly functions under the directives of mind and the mind is an acting form of soul, which is capable of creating all the requirements for living successful life in this world. Our each physical life is a stepping stone during the journey of our soul towards the glory of God.

Self elevation is a process of becoming aware of our soul and lifting it up towards the the final destination that is supreme consciousness of God. This soul's journey enriches our present life as well as qualifies us for getting improved life after life. You are suggested to read the book “Self Elevation: creating wealth, wisdom and peace” by Dr. Jayanti Rusat.