Ask anyone this question and you would almost immediately feel a sudden deep sorrow within them.
All religions address happiness and pain as manifestations of desire. Yet happiness or rather the desire for happiness becomes greater as we are laden with heavier burdens of life and love.
What is desire? It is the manifestation of the flesh over the soul that binds us to the spatio temporal existence of this life. As such, the desire for peace, being a desire, can only bring more pain and bindings to this world and maya.
But how to be happy?
Embrace life as a journey of metamorphosis and changes than a goal and end in itself. Journey could be painful or enjoyable, depending on your mood or perceptions. Embrace changes as the chances to become better. Pain and hurts of our life make us more beautiful and humane. They also signal the coming of joyous times. As the caterpillar reinvents itself as the beautiful butterfly, it has to suffer and endure hardships. If it dies in this attempt, we get silk, if it survives, it becomes a beautiful butterfly. Doesn’t it surprise anyone that since ages in almost all literature, the butterfly is the liet motif of the soul.
When you choose to be happy in happiness, its nothing abnormal…but when you choose to see your moments of pain and hurts as harbingers of greater joy and beauty, why should you be unhappy?
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Soul is the empty place ,always manifested either by FLESH or DIVINE SPIRIT.so it is the responsibility of the individual to surrender either to flesh or holy spirit.
@Jack
its a saying I heard mny yrs ago about an old Red Indian who said that two dogs lived within him and fought constantly; one was a good dog, the the other a bad one. On being asked which one most often, he replied, the one i feed most. Whatever the soul or the divine or flesh, everything is governed largely by own choices, irrespective of our experiences being good or happy or bad or painful.
..yes man is such a wonderful creation of god has such a freedom to choose his/her fruit according to his/her CHOICE....that make the human being special with all other creature.
Like Adam and Eve chose the evil apple,..teased by serpent ,the devil
@Jack
the apple was never evil....only the intent of adam, eve and the satan
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