Your Happiness…
Good and bad, wealth and poverty, praise and blame go together in this
world. You cannot derive happiness out of happiness. Happiness
comes only out of sorrow. A wealthy man today may become a pauper tomorrow. Similarly, a
pauper may become a rich man some day or other. Today you are being praised,
but tomorrow you may be criticised. To consider praise and blame, happiness and
sorrow, prosperity and adversity with equal-mindedness is the hallmark of a
true human being.
The Hindu scriptures, the Gita, declares,
“Remain equal-minded in happiness and sorrow,
gain and loss, victory and defeat”. You can truly enjoy
your life as a human being only when you consider both sorrow and happiness,
profit and loss with equanimity. There is no value for happiness without
sorrow. Therefore, welcome sorrow if you want to experience real happiness.
