People question that whether there is any need for a happy person to meditate. This thought arising in the mind reveals that there is a misconception somewhere that meditation is targeted to gain happiness and if the person is already happy then where is the need? But this is not the case; meditation is not a quest for happiness.
Happiness, feel good, health etc can be a byproduct of meditation but meditation is not aimed at getting happiness. It is being comfortable and at ease within in an everlasting manner in all circumstances.
Your happiness is transitory, it comes and goes, and you may then become unhappy. Happiness is exclusive, it does not take into account many things into its fold and therefore when they surface in your life, you tend to be unhappy. Happiness is like fever, happiness is conditional, certain parameters come together and you feel happy. The moment they disintegrate, the fever goes down and your happiness also leaves you.
Meditation is sliding a little back into your being from where you can experience happiness as well as unhappiness and you are unaffected, and you remain calm. All the changes keep happening on the surface like waves on the sea but within there is deep peace. Meditation is that stillness when you are at ease with yourself irrespective of what happens in your life, it may be pleasurable or it may be painful, you may be happy or unhappy but you remain a distant witness. Meditation is all inclusive.
If you study happiness then you shall discover that it has many shades. What happiness means for you is not applicable to all, for another it may mean something else. That is why there is so much confusion and dissatisfaction in relationships. You see others with your spectacles and that is where you go wrong, for what you see the other doesn’t. So there can be no uniformity there. Uniformity is only possible when everything is included in its embrace; it is absolute whereas happiness is restrictive.
Meditation is independent of your mental state. Meditation is not doing something to achieve a goal; it is being in alignment with what IS. The techniques of meditation are there to merely throw you into that alignment which is already there. Without actually having any knowledge of technique, many a times you may be in meditation and the technique unfolds for you unknowingly and you stumble upon the technique that suits you. However if you are unable to find one, then several techniques are given by Masters and you have to experiment and find the one most suited to you.
Beautifully elaboration of Happiness and Meditation by Anant sri.Realy,a it is insight of meditativeness.Hapiness papers only on the surface of doing and having,but Meditation is being in the state of being,which guides both doing and having intrinsically.
Hapiness is the demand of mind ,so it may be created by mind.So, once the object of hapiness fulfilled,mind again searches for another object of hapiness,this creates vicious cycle of quest for hapiness.But, In Meditation,mind is itself taken care by being.wheather it is hapiness or unhappiness,being remains non reactive.
Beautifully elaboration of Happiness and Meditation by Anant sri.Realy,a it is insight of meditativeness.Hapiness papers only on the surface of doing and having,but Meditation is being in the state of being,which guides both doing and having intrinsically.
Hapiness is the demand of mind ,so it may be created by mind.So, once the object of hapiness fulfilled,mind again searches for another object of hapiness,this creates vicious cycle of quest for hapiness.But, In Meditation,mind is itself taken care by being.wheather it is hapiness or unhappiness,being remains non reactive.
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