Seldom did the young man ask the question; Does the Bhagavad Gita show the remedy for happiness or the ways to attain happiness? It was a good question, it was from a young person, so there were also dreams in it. I said, 'The Gita has also given a valuable word for happiness, which is situational awareness.' The young man replied in a minute, 'This is a very difficult thing! Explain to me.' The Gita is accepted as the scripture that removes the miseries of this world. It does not show any magic method of how happiness comes and how sorrow goes, but it shows the remedies of what to do in case of happiness and what to do in case of unhappiness. The first chapter of the Gita is called Vishadyoga, Arjuna is sad that he has to fight this war, he has a doubt in his mind that I will cause the death of all of them and because of that I will become a partner in sin. In Arjuna's mind, the grief mainly due to death becomes the foundation of melancholy, and for this reason, from the beginning of the second chapter, Lord Krishna suggests some remedies to Arjuna to relieve this grief. The main spiritual journey in it starts from there. An intelligent person does not mourn for any living being from whom Prana has departed or in whom there is Prana, i.e. living or dead. In the 15th verse of the second chapter Lord Sri Krishna nicely presents the whole thing like this; 'O Arjuna, the best of men! A man who is not distracted by happiness and sorrow and remains equal in both is most suitable for liberation.' In a way, this is the essence of Bhagavad Gita. Sri Krishna uses the word, 'Samsukhdukha', that is, a person who maintains the same mental state in both happiness and suffering, becomes liberated. Lord Krishna says that one should not be proud of happiness, should not desire more happiness (detailed:) and should not be distracted by suffering. A person who can attain such a state without being confused can be called a Sati Prajna. Everything in this world keeps moving. Happiness and sorrow also come and go, if you escape in happiness and fall in sorrow, then it becomes difficult for you to survive in this cycle of samsara. And that is why stable intelligence means that one who accepts happiness and sorrow equally in any situation without losing his mental balance attains state knowledge. Now at the very beginning of the characteristics of a Sthitaprajna for attaining mental stability, Lord Shri Krishna says that a person who gives up the desires that come and arise in his mind from the very beginning, it is easy for a person to have a single mindedness in happiness and sorrow. This is easy to say but very difficult to implement. It is for this reason that the very beginning of Lord Krishna's characteristics of a Sthitaprajna speaks of a very basic principle of self-satisfaction. To appease the soul with the soul itself means you have to do your own salvation. Contentment is man's weapon of ultimate prosperity. If once a human decides that I have to be satisfied with myself. So the confusion arising from expectations in his life can be avoided. Remember Harindra Dave, who said, 'One's affection is not low, our expectations are high.' So before taking the highway of happiness you have to keep your mind in order. Desires that sway the market of this mind push a man to suffering. Anger, fear and anger are three great enemies. It is from these three that suffering arises in the human mind due to expectations and expectations. Verses 62 and 63 of the second chapter speak of a vicious circle, due to which human beings go on the path of destruction. Just as it is necessary to keep the desires in mind before walking in the path of happiness, so is something about attachment. A man who is constantly attached, if his desires and wishes are not satisfied in his mind, anger, hypnosis arises due to anger. It is through this hypnosis that a person gradually loses control over his mind. His memory is also wounded, he loses his sense of what is right and wrong, and such a mindless person does not attain the stability of his intellect and is destroyed by it. The vicious cycle started by this attachment leads the human being to destruction. Thus Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita prefers the condition of having the same state of mind in happiness and suffering over the method of attaining happiness. Today is the key to human development and situational awareness and eternal happiness.
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From the Balcony of Existence: The Search for Happiness
