The Secret of Being Happy -10.

(Spoken on October 19, 1972)

10.

Though the sufferings of the mind, the agonies of people, are multifarious, they have a single cause. Ultimately all diseases come from one cause: a confusion of attitudes and relationships – which means to say, the laws of the Truth value of a thing and the hanging on of the body and the mind to the ‘untruth value’ in the object. That which is untrue is that which is perishable. Anything that is subject to destruction is untruth. The very nature of Truth is non-perishability. The moment it is subject to destruction, we do not call it true. “Oh, it is not true. It has gone. It is not real,” we say.

But what do we see in the world which is enduring? We cannot say anything in the physical cosmos is enduring. We say the creation itself has a beginning. Once upon a time God created the world, and so on; it had a beginning, and therefore, it will have an end also. It shall be withdrawn. But there is an underlying basic being which is within all and which urges itself forward as an unavoidable and irreducible minimum of existence in us. When everything goes, one thing will not go. When everything passes away, there is something which remains.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ..