The Secret of Being Happy-13.

(Spoken on October 19, 1972)

13.
It is impossible to imagine what this is because we have no time to think all this. We are busy with quantities, calculations, counting, measurements. These take all our lives. Where is time for us to think of this fundamental vital value which is keeping us alive in this world?

This is the hope that is in our hearts. Even if we are in the worst of predicaments, we have a hope, “Tomorrow I shall be better.” But who gives us this hope? Not the things, because they are untrustworthy. Not one thing in the world can be trusted for long, and yet we have a hope, “I shall succeed.” Who told us that we will succeed?

Something tells us from within. That something within us, which we are unable to see and yet are accepting unwittingly, is our real friend. This friend of ours is inseparable from us. It is our bosom friend, our alter ego. This friend alone will help us when we are in agony. When we are thrown to the winds and nobody wants us, this friend will come and help us, and nobody else.

We have no father, no mother who will help us always, no friends, no relations, no riches. We cannot trust even the health of our own body, such is the untrustworthy nature of things. And yet we struggle and stress and work hard for something, we know not what.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ...