by Satinder | Sep 21, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories |
The Rainbow Fish A Story by Marcus Pfister Once upon a time there was a fish with shiny, multi-colored scales named Rainbow Fish. He was always fond of his scales. But one day, a small fish asked him if he could have one. Rainbow Fish refused in a very rude way. The...
by Satinder | Sep 20, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories
Gist of Mahābhārata, the epic that contains the Bhagavad Gīta Mahābhārata, literally ‘the great story of the Bharat dynasty,’ contains 100,000 verses. It begins with a claim of completeness, stating: “What is found here may be found elsewhere. What is not found...
by Satinder | Sep 20, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
Door of Happiness: तत्त्वमसि The door of true happiness is neither open nor closed. It appears open or closed when looked through the lens of likes and dislikes. Vedānta explains it clearly: In deep sleep, we are not aware of our body, name, fame, status, wealth...
by Satinder | Sep 1, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
THE KNOWLEDGE WORTH SACRIFICING EVERYTHING FOR! When Nalanda University was ransacked in c. 1200 CE, two surviving monks managed to salvage the most precious manuscripts from the pillaged library. While ferrying this priceless cargo, water started entering the boat....
by Satinder | Aug 25, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
True Happiness is Not Experiential We commonly use the term happiness, ānanda, to express our pleasurable experiences. There are other words that we tend to use quite interchangeably such as fulfillment, bliss, joy, well-being and so forth. These allied terms may be...
by Satinder | Aug 24, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories
A Sanskrit epigrammatic saying, Subhāṣita, explains various uses of wealth as follows: दानं भोगो नाशः तिस्रो गतयो भवन्ति वित्तस्य । यो न ददाति न भुङ्क्ते तस्य तृतीया गतिर्भवति ॥ dānaṁ bhogo nāśaḥ tisro gatayo bhavanti vittasya । yo na dadāti na bhuṅkte tasya tṛtīyā...
by Satinder | Aug 23, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
Gazing Forward, Glancing Back: Connecting the i-dots! By critical acclaim, Steve Jobs is considered to be a creative genius and a great visionary leader. More than one pundit, praising Steve’s ability to transform industries with his inventions, have called him a...
by Satinder | Aug 21, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I?
It is wonder of wonders that fulfillment or happiness is our intrinsic nature; we keep frantically looking for it outside. Self-knowledge puts an end to this life of relentless becoming by revealing a Self that is ever full, whole, and complete (pūraṇa). Anchored in...
by Satinder | Aug 20, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Poetry Unlimited |
Be Good and Do Good! If you can dream it, you can do it, quipped Walt Disney. Like most one-liners, this too seems to be only partially true. The world is full of dreamers who seldom do much. Likewise, we have people who do all sorts of stuff, including that which...
by Satinder | Aug 13, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories |
Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of aids which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983. He received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: “Why did God have to select you for such a bad disease?” To this...
by Satinder | Aug 4, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories, Who Am I? |
People resort to meditation for a variety of reasons. Some just for fun; while a few others, to go with the flow. Some curious ones want to try myriad forms of meditation, having done some quick “window-shopping” on the net. There is actually quite a variety of...
by Satinder | Aug 2, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories
If there is one talisman, lucky charm, about happiness, it is this: Give what you want to get! If you want peace, be the harbinger of peace. If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want fearlessness, cause fear to no one. If you want to be loved, be...
by Satinder | Jul 26, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories, Who Am I?
The only thing that is self-evident is the Self. Everything else becomes evident through the Self. In this manner, our whole existence can be reduced to two basis entities: ‘I’ and ‘not-I.’ There is this ‘I’ and everything else is ‘not-I.’ ‘I’ refers to ‘I-am,’ the...
by Satinder | Jul 24, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories |
Happiness generally involves some pleasant experience, feeling, thought, or state. In that state, one feels a sense of ease and peace. It is a feeling of “things falling into place.” A certain level of comfort also seems to accompany most states of happiness. Is...
by Satinder | Jul 23, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories
“Happiness is where ‘I’ is not.” ~Nisargadatta Maharaj Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. ~Ramana Maharshi
by Satinder | Jul 23, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
Analysis of Bliss Ānanda Mīmāṁsā in Taittirīya Upaniṣad In book two (Ananda Vallī), anuvāka eight of Taittirīya Upaniṣad, a wisdom text dealing with Self-knowledge, we come across a most detailed analysis, mīmāṁsā, of different levels of bliss, ānanda,...
by Satinder | Jul 21, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I?
“I have learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” ~ Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1965. Knowing about things is mere information; knowing the thing-in-itself (Ding an sich) is transformation. When we...
by Satinder | Jul 19, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
भज गोविन्दंभजगोविन्दं भजगोविन्दं गोविन्दं भजमूढमते ।सम्प्राप्ते सन्निहिते काले नहि नहि रक्षति डुकृञ्करणे ॥ १॥bhaja govindaṁbhajagovindaṁ bhajagovindaṁ govindaṁ bhajamūḍhamate |samprāpte sannihite kale nahi nahi rakṣati ḍukṛñkaraṇe ||1||Seek/attain the knowledge of...
by Satinder | Jul 19, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
Profoundest truths of existence register in the sonorous silence of soul.A calm abidance, a state of steadfastness in the self—sthitaprajñatā, the means and the end of all spirituality.In the deep silence, the self revels in the Self.Silence is the beginning, the...
by Satinder | Jul 18, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
Vedānta teaches us that the fundamental human problem is the lack of self-knowledge and the resultant extrovertedness of our search for happiness and the mistaken way we relate to the world. In all our quests, we approach people, objects, and situations through...
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