Today people generally live their lives asleep, are
unconscious of themselves, and accordingly behave like machines, subject to
outside causes and pressures. The people of the past generation lived in more
suitable outer conditions and at higher inner levels than the people today.
If the mind, which is the instrument of knowledge and is the
basis of all activity, subsides, the perception of the world as an objective
reality ceases. Unless the illusory perception of the serpent in the rope
ceases, the rope on which the illusion is formed is not perceived as such. Even
so, unless the illusory nature of the perception of the world as an objective
reality ceases, the vision of the true nature of the Self, on which the
illusion is formed, is not obtained.So let's awake and know and understand ourself.
In a state of deep happiness the thinking process stops or almost
stops, and there are no thoughts. There is inner silence of the mind,
inner peace, and worries and problems are forgotten for a little while.
If you examine the state of your mind when in deep happiness, you
will discover that the sense of happiness and bliss is experienced on a
background of inner peace and inner silence.
True happiness is not brought about by external circumstances,
events, objects or people, though they often trigger the sense of
happiness or indirectly bring it about. They might make it easier for
happiness and bliss to emerge, but happiness and bliss actually come
from the inside, when certain factors are present.
Happiness and bliss are always here, but covered by thoughts,
desires and fears. They are part of the real you. When thoughts,
desires or fears disappear, happiness and bliss emerge. When you
experience success, love or any positive outcome, worries and problems
drop away temporarily, allowing the happiness and bliss within you to
emerge into your consciousness.
Through meditation, concentration and developing the ability to calm
down or silence the mind at will, one can remove the obstacles to
happiness and bliss, and can experience them more often and
independently of circumstances and situations, at any time and place.
