Questioner: When will we find happiness in the worldly life?
Dadashri: There can never be any happiness in the worldly life. But if you adopt good measures, then you will experience some happiness, and if you adopt measures based on Gnan, you will have permanent bliss. At present, there is 99 per cent pain and misery (dukh) and only 1 per cent happiness (sukh). In Satyug (era of unity in mind, speech and body), there was only happiness.

Questioner: Do happiness and misery occur because of time?
Dadashri: This is a samsaran marg (a path of evolution for every living entity). All these living beings (jivas) are flowing along in this stream. They are progressing. How can you measure progress? When visible matter (dravya; effect of karma), location (kshetra), time (kaal) and intent (bhaav) come together, the action becomes visible. Time is evident, and therefore, people give more credence to time. How much of our own ‘doership’ can we attribute to our coming into this Kaliyug; dushamkaal (current time cycle characterised as a time of lack of unity in people’s thought, speech and action; an era of moral and spiritual decline)?

Today’s worldly science has become ‘out of balance’. It has exceeded normal limits and turned into ‘poison’. In this day and age, it is on account of this worldly science (bhautik vignan) that we have unlimited external happiness. While on the other hand, the inner happiness has dried up! There should be a balance in external and internal happiness. If there are slight ups and downs, it is acceptable, but they should be within limit. If your worldly happiness decreases, you can make do with it, but today the inner happiness has completely disappeared.

People run around on the outside in search for inner peace, but how can they find it that way? You will only find peace on the outside, if you have peace within. Therefore, you must believe that there is happiness within. Only then can you attain inner peace.

God (Bhagwan) has asked you to keep an eye on the gauge which measures the inner and the outer happiness. If inner happiness goes down and your external happiness goes up, then know that you are doomed. A little fluctuation up and down is acceptable, but what will become of you, if your inner happiness goes completely down? People have increased their external happiness so much. A man will buy apartments that are worth millions, have copious amounts to eat and drink, crates upon crates of fruit; wherefore he ends up with high blood pressure and heart attacks and his wife with diabetes. Doctors have put ‘muzzles over their mouths’ (placed dietary restrictions). So who is going to eat all this? The rats, his servants and his cook will eat and drink and get plump! When you enter his expensive apartment, you feel as if you have entered a morgue (cemetery). And even when you converse with him, he talks with sheer ego. He serves you expensive tea, but in the absence of real inner intent (bhaav), even gold, no matter how good it is, loses its worth. And from the look on his face, he appears as if he has forgotten how to smile. What kind of gift of external happiness is this?

Inner happiness brings forth contentment (trupti) and external happiness increases one’s greed. Inner peace cannot remain where one’s intellect (buddhi) is self-serving.

To be Continued…

For more information on Dadashri’s spiritual science, visit dadabhagwan.orgQuestioner: When will we find happiness in the worldly life?

Dadashri: There can never be any happiness in the worldly life. But if you adopt good measures, then you will experience some happiness, and if you adopt measures based on Gnan, you will have permanent bliss. At present, there is 99 per cent pain and misery (dukh) and only 1 per cent happiness (sukh). In Satyug (era of unity in mind, speech and body), there was only happiness.

Questioner: Do happiness and misery occur because of time?
Dadashri: This is a samsaran marg (a path of evolution for every living entity). All these living beings (jivas) are flowing along in this stream. They are progressing. How can you measure progress? When visible matter (dravya; effect of karma), location (kshetra), time (kaal) and intent (bhaav) come together, the action becomes visible. Time is evident, and therefore, people give more credence to time. How much of our own ‘doership’ can we attribute to our coming into this Kaliyug; dushamkaal (current time cycle characterised as a time of lack of unity in people’s thought, speech and action; an era of moral and spiritual decline)?

Today’s worldly science has become ‘out of balance’. It has exceeded normal limits and turned into ‘poison’. In this day and age, it is on account of this worldly science (bhautik vignan) that we have unlimited external happiness. While on the other hand, the inner happiness has dried up! There should be a balance in external and internal happiness. If there are slight ups and downs, it is acceptable, but they should be within limit. If your worldly happiness decreases, you can make do with it, but today the inner happiness has completely disappeared.

People run around on the outside in search for inner peace, but how can they find it that way? You will only find peace on the outside, if you have peace within. Therefore, you must believe that there is happiness within. Only then can you attain inner peace.

God (Bhagwan) has asked you to keep an eye on the gauge which measures the inner and the outer happiness. If inner happiness goes down and your external happiness goes up, then know that you are doomed. A little fluctuation up and down is acceptable, but what will become of you, if your inner happiness goes completely down? People have increased their external happiness so much. A man will buy apartments that are worth millions, have copious amounts to eat and drink, crates upon crates of fruit; wherefore he ends up with high blood pressure and heart attacks and his wife with diabetes. Doctors have put ‘muzzles over their mouths’ (placed dietary restrictions). So who is going to eat all this? The rats, his servants and his cook will eat and drink and get plump! When you enter his expensive apartment, you feel as if you have entered a morgue (cemetery). And even when you converse with him, he talks with sheer ego. He serves you expensive tea, but in the absence of real inner intent (bhaav), even gold, no matter how good it is, loses its worth. And from the look on his face, he appears as if he has forgotten how to smile. What kind of gift of external happiness is this?

Inner happiness brings forth contentment (trupti) and external happiness increases one’s greed. Inner peace cannot remain where one’s intellect (buddhi) is self-serving.

To be Continued…