Author: SIVA PRASAD DANTU

TWO WORDS THAT BRING HAPPINESS

What are they??

Answer:TRUTH AND REALITY

You know these words that bring the true happiness to you. But at the same time you are confused and search for happiness all the time. Before we proceed further, let us clear from our mind that true happiness is different from having comfortable life. You can be happy, even if you are not a millionaire. You can be unhappy even if you are a millionaire. Luxury cars, huge bungalows, lavish life style have nothing to do with true happiness. Those having all these still lack true happiness. Those lacking all these too are unhappy. Remember, any thing that can be purchased with money never brings true happiness. Then, what are those three words, that can bring true happiness to those who have every conceivable comfort and those who do not have these comforts? TRUTH: Adherence to truth brings us real happiness. Truth is different from what we perceive. Unless, we search our inner self, we never realize the truth. The truth is, that we are born with a mission. The truth is that our life is short and we must elevate ourselves to a better life, after our death by being truthful through out our lives. We must do things that please our heart. We should never lie, because others are lying. We should care for the long term gains, than the short term comforts. The truth is, what ever good deeds or bad deeds we do in this life time, go with us even after we die. What ever sins, we commit never leave us even after our death. What ever good deeds we do too never leave us after our death. All the good deeds are credited to your account and all the bad deeds are debited to our account. We can not hide bad deeds, from the omni present. If our good deeds out weigh our bad deeds, we are rewarded to that extent. If our bad deeds out weigh good deeds, we cannot escape the punishment. We suffer in the next lives. Only when we realize the purpose of life and lead a truthful life, our soul will merge with the almighty and we have no rebirth. Money is not truth. Money is mans creation to feed comforts and confuse us. Money feeds desires and takes us away from the truth. Money makes us believe that this life is for enjoyment of luxuries and nothing else. Money feeds our desires and distances us from truth. If you realize this truth, you will not chase money. You will always chase truth and get rewarded. Those who adhere to truth are always happy. REALITY:: Unless we realize the truth, reality will be different from the actual reality for us. In reality, we need not see mirages and chase them. we must see the reality, realize the purpose of our life and lead a life that is of enrichment. We must try to taste the eternal happiness. Eternal happiness comes to you only, if you are detached from things that are confusing and take the path of righteousness. Reality requires us to go on the right path always. Once we realize the true essence of reality, we will not run after money but chase good things. Compassion to others, detachment from things that are not needed by us in real sense, helping others, not hurting others by our words, actions or deeds brings us the true happiness. A truly happy man earns to live and survive and not live to earn. He knows that all the money, all the luxuries cannot go with him to the other world. Even the body, which he cares lovingly during his life time, will vanish into the earth. What survives is the soul after the death. Once we realize this truth, we will realize the futility of chasing things that go with us for some time only and not always.

So let us realize what is the truth and reality, different from what we perceive as truth and reality. Let us lead life with wants to the minimum. Let us pursue, a life that adds and enriches our next life. Let us not live in the past and spoil our future, and after our death. Let us not get confused by the desires, that only want us to distance us from the truth and reality. Let our thoughts, actions, deeds and words pass the test of truth and reality. What ever modernism achieved, can not stop our death and the life there after. Hence, let us live by truth and reality and realize the mission, for which we are born into this world.