IS THERE NO HAPPINESS IN THE WORLD?
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From the thoughts of HH Shri Bhola Nathji (1902-1992) a Great Spiritual Luminary of his time who gave peace and beatitude to countless folk during his lifetime.
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Why does man live, and what does he strive for, all his life?
A little bit of happiness. But, alas, this goes no sooner than it comes.
The question arises: Is there any happiness in the world?
The happiness of being together with loved ones soon gives way to lamentations of sorrow at partings. And then there is the inevitable parting at the time of death.
The happiness of youth soon gives way to the infirmities of old age, illness, decay and disease.
There is the relentless hand of time that takes everything away from us swifter than the mind can think. Every day turns into night. Every flower that we love, fades away. The garden which was yesterday filled with flowers becomes filled with thorns.
We try to hold on to as much happiness as we can find in the world, only to see it slip out of our hands.
We are like someone who is lost in the desert, who is seized by a relentless thirst for water, but can find it nowhere.
Mirages hover around him every once in a while. He rushes to them and finds no real water in them.
Does this mean that water does not exist?
No. His relentless thirst proves that water must exist somewhere.
In a like manner, the never-ending relentless thirst for happiness in man proves that happiness must exist somewhere. But where? No matter how much happiness he may try to hold on to, it goes no sooner than it comes, like a mirage, which vanishes no sooner does one come close to it.
Stricken by misery and hopelessness, in the end, man turns towards God, who is believed to be the Source of Eternal Happiness.
And at last he finds a companion who will ever be by his side, a refuge in the worst storms of life, and One who will be with him in life as well as in death, and, indeed, forever.
And it is there that he finds the happiness that he had been wrongly seeking in the perishable objects of the world.
THE VERY FACT THAT HAPPINESS CANNOT BE FOUND IN THE THINGS OF THE WORLD, AND THE VERY FACT THAT THE QUEST FOR HAPPINESS CAN NEVER BE GIVEN UP BY MAN, IS ONE OF THE GREATEST PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.
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From the thoughts of HH Shri Bhola Nathji (1902-1992) a Great Spiritual Luminary of his time who gave peace and beatitude to countless folk during his lifetime.
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Why does man live, and what does he strive for, all his life?
A little bit of happiness. But, alas, this goes no sooner than it comes.
The happiness of being together with loved ones soon gives way to lamentations of sorrow at partings. And then there is the inevitable parting at the time of death.
The happiness of youth soon gives way to the infirmities of old age, illness, decay and disease.
There is the relentless hand of time that takes everything away from us swifter than the mind can think. Every day turns into night. Every flower that we love, fades away. The garden which was yesterday filled with flowers becomes filled with thorns.
We try to hold on to as much happiness as we can find in the world, only to see it slip out of our hands.
We are like someone who is lost in the desert, who is seized by a relentless thirst for water, but can find it nowhere.
Mirages hover around him every once in a while. He rushes to them and finds no real water in them.
Does this mean that water does not exist?
No. His relentless thirst proves that water must exist somewhere.
In a like manner, the never-ending relentless thirst for happiness in man proves that happiness must exist somewhere. But where? No matter how much happiness he may try to hold on to, it goes no sooner than it comes, like a mirage, which vanishes no sooner does one come close to it.
Stricken by misery and hopelessness, in the end, man turns towards God, who is believed to be the Source of Eternal Happiness.
And at last he finds a companion who will ever be by his side, a refuge in the worst storms of life, and One who will be with him in life as well as in death, and, indeed, forever.
And it is there that he finds the happiness that he had been wrongly seeking in the perishable objects of the world.
THE VERY FACT THAT HAPPINESS CANNOT BE FOUND IN THE THINGS OF THE WORLD, AND THE VERY FACT THAT THE QUEST FOR HAPPINESS CAN NEVER BE GIVEN UP BY MAN, IS ONE OF THE GREATEST PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.
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