Happiness

Lasting Happiness

• Happiness lies within oneself.
• Happiness is our nature.

Deluded Notion About Happiness

• Will objects give happiness?
• Will objects lead to disappointment only?
• Will externalization bring happiness?
• Will externalization bring misery and vexation ^[annoying] only?

Desire

Desire, Thought and Imagination Conversation

• Desire: I want this sense-object.
• Thought: I will plan and act to get it for you (desire).
• Imagination: Getting it will give you (desire) a pleasure feeling.
• Desire: Thank you, thought and imagination. I will attach to it.
• As a result, if I (desire) cannot get it, I (desire) will fell pain. If I get it, but lose it later, I will also feel pain.
• Conclusion: Getting (temporary) sense-object will not satisfy for long, before it will feel pain and start wanting it more, again and again.

Do and Don’t

• Do organized-thinking (and destroy random thinking)
• Encourage noble aspiration
• Focus all energy (power and strength) on few important tasks
• Gather the rays of the mind (and don’t scatter the rays of the mind, by not allowing each ray to go after a sensual object)
• Identify with BRAHMA (and don’t identify with the body)
• Know the self (through deep meditation and silence witness)
• Still the mind (through deep meditation)
• Close the eyes, shut the ears, zip the mouth

5 Don’t

• Don’t eat too much => Laziness
• Don’t sleep too much => Sleepiness
• Don’t mix too much => Disturbance
• Don’t talk too much => Distraction
• Don’t walk too much => Exhaustion, Weakness

And More…

• Decrease the numbers of thoughts (by having less desires for sensual objects)
• Detach from all sense-objects (and don’t attach to any sensual objects)
• Destroy sensual desires one by one (by letting go of it, or by knowing its uselessness)
• Reject sensual thoughts (by knowing its unsatisfied nature)
• Renounce the desires (by knowing that: more desires only lead to more issues)
• Resist temptation from sensual objects
• Withhold hash words (by knowing its harmful nature to others as well as oneself)

Character And Thought

• Celibacy (= No or little sexual activities with husband or wife)
• PRANAYAMA
• Control of Anger (Feel angry for what reason?)
• Dispassion (= No attachment to any objects or sense objects)
• Silence
• Seclusion
• Discipline of Senses (= Control of sense of hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, touching, imagining)
• JAPA (= Repetition of God name)

Negative Thoughts To Give Up…

• Giving Up Novels and News
• Giving Up Movies and Cinema
• Giving Up Ill-Will
• Giving Up Lust ^{[Strong Sensual Desire]}
• Giving Up Sloth ^{[Laziness, Slow-moving]} and Torpor ^{[Inactive, Numb]}
• Giving Up Flurry ^{[Sudden Excitement]} and Worry
• Giving Up Perplexity ^[Hesitation]
• Giving Up Harassment ^{[Annoying Continuously]}
• Giving Up Tossing from One Object to Another Object
• Giving Up Memory of Sensual Pleasure
• Reduction of Wants/Sensual Objects
• Reduction of Activities (= No too much talking, walking, eating, sleeping, mixing with others, sexual activities)

Negative Thoughts To Eliminate…

• Ambition
• Anger
• Anxiety
• Bitterness toward other people
• Boredom
• Bondage
• Base thoughts
• Carnal love
• Craving
• Disappointment
• Disease
• Disgust ^{[strong aversion]}
• Doubt
• Drama
• Fear
• Fear of death
• Fear of old age
• Fleeting pleasure
• Greed
• Hatred
• Hot Temper
• I-ness
• Illusion
• Ill-will toward other people
• Impatience
• Impulse, sex-impulse
• Imprison
• Jealousy
• Laziness
• Lust
• Luxury
• Mine-ness
• Misery
• Needle, scars, wounds
• Outwardness
• Revenge
• Pain
• Passion
• Possessions
• Sin
• Sensual objects
• Sensual enjoyments
• Sensual sounds
• Sensual pleasure
• Sexual pleasure
• Sensual indulgence
• Soul bondage ^{[subject to constraint]}
• Useless imagination
• Wants

Effects Of Negative Thoughts

• Induce old age
• Shorten lifespan
• Kill body cells
• Induce disease
• Drive away energy
• Throw chemical poison into blood stream

Most Powerful Thought

• The most powerful thought is the concentrated thought. The more concentrated, the more power.
• It is the thought without other extraneous thoughts.
• It is the letting go of our little self or “Ego”.
• It is the letting go of thought “I have this, I have that”.
• It is the letting go of the world.
• It is the letting go of thought “I am this mind”.
• It is the letting go of the importance of thinking.

Self Realization

Process Of Realization

1. We feel more pain as we go through life
2. We start knowing that we will not satisfy/enjoy for long (from any sensual objects)
3. We start feeling dissatisfaction with sensual objects/sensual enjoyment
4. We have aspiration to know the truth
5. We start abstraction/refinement of knowledge
6. We have concentration of the mind
7. We practice meditation daily
8. We reach the realization