Everyone wants to be happy and no one wants to suffer, but very few
people understand the real causes of happiness and suffering.
We tend to look for happiness outside ourselves, thinking that if we
had the right house, the right car, the right job, and the right
friends we would be truly happy.
We spend almost all our time adjusting the external world, trying to
make it conform to our wishes.
All our life we have tried to surround ourselves with people and
things that make us feel comfortable, secure, or stimulated, yet
still we have not found pure and lasting happiness.
It is time we sought happiness from a different source.
Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must
lie within the mind, not in external conditions.
If our mind is pure and peaceful we shall be happy, regardless of
our external circumstances, but if it is impure and unpeaceful we
can never be truly happy, no matter how hard we try to change our
external conditions.
We could change our home or our partner countless times, but until
we change our restless, discontented mind we shall never find true
happiness.
subhasrini
OM SAI SRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI!!!
Let us pray at the feet of Sai Baba who is the incarnation of all gods and protector of all, to show mercy on us, and increase our devotion towards him.
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