Happiness Through Head and Heart

Thoughts dodge you. Questions storm you. And you are lost in the jigsaw puzzle of queries and more queries. The question that troubles most rational human beings is, "Why am I born? My humble answer to that is the one given by Buddha, The Enlightened one to his disciple: When the house is on fire, first extinguish it with water. Don't just stand there in front of the burning house and reason out the cause of it. The cause would be known only when the fire is put out. Similarly, now that you are born and are living on this planet Earth, you must live in the manner which is most positive. For that you have to work hard.

Treat life not as an imposition but as a gift from God - to be loved and to be cherished. Move on the pathway of live with faith and courage. and the confidence that he is with you. Accept life with all its trials and tribulations. Acceptance of whatever is, will solve half of your problems.

Know that whatever your life is today, is your own making. It is combined result of your karma, in the previous birth and the exercise of your free will before you were born in this life. You yourself have shaped your life for your own good. So my mantra is: Accept your life with all its trials and suffering.

What do you seek is your day-to-day living ? Happiness. How many have experience happiness? How many can define happiness Yet everyone seeks happiness. That's ultimate goal. Few know where to seek happiness. Most of you seek happiness out-side of yourselves. You run after money, power, wealth, authority, status, name and fame. You are running after the shadows of happiness. True happiness comes from within, from the purification of mind and the ultimate intuition of heart.

Yes, there arises a question. Should you listen to the voice of the head or the voice of the heart?
My answer is simple. Listen to the voice of the heart through the head. Emotions lead us astray. We need head as much as we need heart. Develop both to an extent where both converge to a point of light, and your goal of happiness is achieved.

People are awed by the miracles of science as much as they are fascinated by the powers of spirituality. There is no competition between the two. Science is the discovery of one area and spirituality is the discovery of another area; in the final analysis there is no difference, both are discoveries, both are an experience of an 'awareness'. Our rishis had this knowledge of science through intuition. So where is the difference ?

As the New Age dawns, materialism will automatically lag behind spirituality. And people will live the 'Vedanta' in their daily lives. The verdant concept is spiritual. One life flows in all things. Therefore the future civilization will be built on reverence for life. All life is sacred. Therefore in your day-to-day living, show reverence for everything. The earth, the sky, the trees, stones, rivers, animals, flowers. The vedantic concept is spiritual but it is one which is scientific, for scientist tell us that there is life even in a stone and that the molecules in a stone are ever changing. Now the time has come when man must either make friends with nature or perish. This is the Truth.

Religion is life; it is fellowship, the mingling of the individual with the Great Life and it is not shut up in temples, it is moving in the market place. The great God is not somewhere in isolation. He is in procession of life. Greet Him there. You will not find him in the temples of marbles and stones, you will meet him in the sweat and struggles of life, in the tears and tragedies of the poor; wiping the tears of the poor and singing his new gita for the new age. So if you want to be happy make others happy.

Yes, my vision of life is secularistic. Secularistic in the spiritual sense and not the religious sense. The spirit of humanity is One. In this life we have to work for the unity of mankind. The coming civilisation will be built on a nobler thought, and that thought is, "You are Me, I am You". In that oneness, Joy, Peace and Love will grow.