Your Happiness, Your Life
By SK Vasudeva 

We all need to put this basic question to ourselves.  All would unmistakably agree on the goal of happiness.  As human beings, divinity being our essential and fundamental trait, we desire, long for and strive for pleasure.  It may surprise many to know, however, that undeniably we are foolishly engaged in frittering away the precious human birth by desiring and amassing accomplishments and worldly possessions.  We continue to wonder when our life will take off and when we would feel sated with that 'elusive happiness'.  The pursuit goes on.  And those of us who are able to attain riches and scale heights of name and fame, look back, wonder in awe, finding for ourselves that happiness is still absent.  More often than not, such people find themselves in a strange trap of bewilderment and feel a sense of insecurity, which they had initially thought the worldly attainments would remove.

Blessedness is a natural accompaniment of birth as a human, but the allurements of worldly life slowly and steadily drag us into wretchedness by making us ignorant of our true divine nature.  The encrustations of illusion and delusion make us forget the grandiosity of being humans.

Though driven, unwittingly, from blessedness to wretchedness, man continues to engage himself in an eternal quest for happiness that keeps eluding him.  The answer is to the initial question posed is quite obvious.  By remaining trapped in an illusory existence, man seeks happiness in finite objects.  He assumes the worldly objects to be the source of happiness.  Physical objects of the phenomenal world are, in a pragmatic sense, finite.  Happiness derived from these objects is also finite.  All finite objects suffer from the constraints of time, space and causation.

True happiness sprouts neither from getting the desired object nor goes off on losing the object or the person dearest to us.  Once attained, it remains our integral part.  Our being bathes in it.  It merges in our Self and the two are inseparably one.  It is a state of God-consciousness.  Remember, peace consciousness rests in an incessant flow of consciousness of the Divine.  Hence, we become closer to the Supreme Father, the provider of all gifts and mercies.  Though slowly, we would definitely inch our way to fuller and final merger with our Creator.  That is our final abode.  Even living a householder's life, one can attain it.  It is not at all surprising, as all can attain it.

Scriptures and enlightened ones have said that complete and unending happiness lies in 'something else'.  That something else is God, the Absolute, the ever-merciful Lord and the Infinite.  He alone is the fountain-head of bliss, happiness and peace of mind.  It is on attaining Him that we become truly happy.  In this realization, we lose our individual identity.  We merge the river of individual consciousness into the ocean of universal consciousness.

In the mad rush for worldly attainments and possessions, we just cater to the ever multiplying demands of the ego.  In the process, we leave the soul malnourished.  It is this malnourishment which is solely responsible for our wretchedness. The proof of eternal happiness can be had only from enlightened ones who demystify the mystery of God and Soul.  God appears on earth in human garb in the form of such enlightened ones to help us escape the quagmire of wretchedness and become a perfect example of blissfulness amidst the dense forest of worldly life.   They give only a one line exhortation – “all can find true happiness in the Spirit alone.”

The material plane is not the right place to look for eternal happiness.  The universal desire for happiness is a sublime manifestation of man's innate divinity.  One can attain it in the midst of worldly hustle and bustle provided one gets a genuine preceptor, whose being is one with the Supreme Person.  Here, I am talking of a perfect spiritual master who can reveal to you your inherent divinity.  Such a one make you see an experience the Divine Spark within through the eye of Spirit and unites you with the Universal Spirit - the only source of true happiness.

All you require is the realization of the true Self within to lift you out of body, mind and ego consciousness.  One does not learn it through the best of sermons and exhilarating story telling.  Here, I am speaking of direct, immediate and personal supra-mental perception and experience of God.  It is a supreme secret and the revelation can be only through the application of the sovereign science of spirituality.  Upon this wondrous cosmic experience, one then learns the art of realistic yet spiritual living.  One learns to see God in both activity and meditation and consequently, realizes and feels presence of God in daily life.

But, ignoring the sacred life for worldly success is a failure in the end. In other words, sacrificing the spiritual life at the altar of the secular life is a disaster.  Thus, from where can one be imparted that sovereign science and supreme secret following which we can work out an ideal blend of secular and sacred life; where the two are in tune with each other? 

This small article is inspired by the experience of hundreds of thousands of brothers and sisters from different faiths and creeds whose lives were revolutionized by learning that sovereign science of spirituality where secular and spiritual can travel on parallel lines. Upon undergoing direct and practical perception of God from Satguru Sri Ashutosh Ji Maharaj, Head and Founder of the Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan, one begins to understand the purpose of his life and the source of his happiness.  Sri Ashutosh Ji is a saint who does not expect anything in return but is out in the world arena to bring to fruition each and every human being’s goal of happiness. That joy and bliss is inherent, and the ineffable source of happiness is revealed by the Guru.

Sushil Kumar Vasudeva is an author of 90 published articles in newspapers and magazines of repute on spirituality, philosophy, theology, religion, etc.  Graduate in Personnel Management and Human Psychology from Delhi University, he is currently a Government of India Civil Service Officer. He is also a disciple of Satguru Sri Ashutosh Ji Maharaj (Spiritual Head of Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan – Divine Light Awakening Mission – www.divyajyoti.org).  You can email him:  vasudeva_sk1@rediffmail.com

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