Dr Jernail Singh Anand
Happiness is a divine quality. It stays with hearts which bear no ill will for anyone. They are also contented with what they have achieved. Looking at what others are having fills our mind with jealousy. It is better if we look at our own blessings. Every man is blessed in a different way.
Where is the door of happiness? In my opinion, there is a delicate balance between what we get from life and what we return to it. Those who are on the getting and grabbing spree, are under the debt of the cosmic forces. If they realize they have got more than they deserve, it can give them a little happiness, but if there is no sense at all, they are dead and drab, and hold no promise of being delivered into the domain of happiness. They are already in a state of hell.
Now, let us think of those who realize they have got so much from nature, and they are trying to return it. There is no other way except to be good to other people. Herein lies happiness. Trying to be even with cosmic forces. But there is a higher stage too which takes us to a still higher state of happiness, it is bliss.
Now, who are in a state of bliss? Those who get less from life, and try to give back to it far more than what they have received. Patriots, martyrs, lovers, idealists – all fall into this category. But they are people who are just marginal. Most of the people fall in the first category who only know how to get and go on getting. These are the people who make a major portion of the human race. They are unhappy, disgruntled race of men, running after more and more. All the dacoits and robbers belong to this category.
There are few people, who are aware and awakened, and who know they have been blessed with certain faculties, which they must share with the world at large. These people who try to pay back to the earth its debt make a sizeable portion of world society. The beauty and charm that we find in this world, though scanty, is because of these people who believe in honesty and goodness of heart.
The highest form of human creation are the people, who belong to the third category. The men who are determined not only to return to other earth what they have got from her, but also to give more than that. I have mentioned the martyrs and the patriots. These are the real benefactors of mankind. What is the number of such people? If their number is fewer, it shows that this world is in general, unkind, and thinks in commercial terms. People believe in goodness in name only, but when they act, they act foul.
So, the stock of happiness in the world is on the decline.
Author:
Dr Jernail Singh Anand, President of the International Academy of Ethics, is author of 167 books in English poetry, fiction, non-fiction, philosophy and spirituality. He was awarded Charter of Morava, the great Award by Serbian Writers Association, Belgrade and his name was engraved on the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. The Academy of Arts and philosophical Sciences of Bari [Italy] honoured him with the award of an Honourable Academic. Recently, he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy [Honoris Causa] by the University of Engg and Management, Jaipur. Recently, he organized an International Conference on Contemporary Ethics at Chandigarh. His most phenomenal book is Lustus:The Prince of Darkness [first epic of the Mahkaal Trilogy]. [Email: anandjs55@yahoo.com Mobile: 919876652401[Whatsapp] [ethicsacademy.co.in]
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