The Secret of Being Happy : 6.

Our aspiration, therefore, is to manifest in our life a quality called happiness which is unending in space and in time. This is only a theoretical and academic acceptance to most people. Learned men, scholars and protagonists of religion do accept that truth and righteousness are the supreme meanings of life. But no one knows what Truth is, and no one can define what righteousness is. Inasmuch as its very conception is difficult, it becomes more difficult to implement in one’s life, so that our learning is a waste. It has become a husk. It is a quantity that we are carrying on our heads as a kind of weight and a load which is of no value to us when we are actually in need and are suffering. When we suffer, we have to suffer alone. No one can help because suffering is a private condition of the mind which cannot be transferred to other people. It is brought about by circumstances beyond the control of the mind.

Though the sufferings of the mind, the agonies of people, are multifarious, they have a single cause. Ultimately all diseases come from one cause: a confusion of attitudes and relationships – which means to say, the laws of the Truth value of a thing and the hanging on of the body and the mind to the ‘untruth value’ in the object. That which is untrue is that which is perishable. Anything that is subject to destruction is untruth. The very nature of Truth is non-perishability. The moment it is subject to destruction, we do not call it true. “Oh, it is not true. It has gone. It is not real,” we say.

Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....