The Secret of Being Happy-28. - Swami Krishnananda

(Spoken on October 19, 1972)

 28.

The Universal is the supreme quality behind the total of the quantities of the world so that even if we are the emperor of the whole world we cannot be happy because, again, it is a quantity.

To possess the whole physical cosmos cannot make us happy because it is, again, a perishable quantity.

The Universal transcends the cosmos.

It is superior even to the totality of universal relationships.

It is not a mathematical, arithmetical quantity; it is a supernal, inscrutable mysterious something, speaking in the language of infinity and eternity within you yourself.

So the happiness is within you, and you can be happy if you want to be happy merely by revealing what you really are at the bottom of your being.



Thus, to reiterate, you can be happy merely by being, merely by existing, and not by possessing.

Merely because you are, you are happy.

God is; you are. All that which is in its essentiality is free, unhampered, and therefore, happy.

God is Pure Existence, Consciousness and Bliss, Sat-Chit-Ananda.

So happiness is Pure Being, which is identical with Pure Consciousness, unlimitedness of freedom.

Happiness is spontaneous.


You will find that to contemplate in this way is next to impossible for most people.

You would prefer to thank God that you are relieved of this yoga and go home, rather than think in this way and sacrifice your earthly joys for the sake of this eternity that is your ultimate quest of life.

But this should be your contemplation. This alone can make you happy.

The Secret of Being Happy - ENDS HERE.

Swami Krishnananda