Ultimate Happiness!

Are we all really happy? Or we all are under illusion? When he was 29, he went in search of happiness. Not just happiness. He actually, went in search of absolute happiness. He succeeded in his endeavour of searching that. He even gets enlightenment. He sees absolute happiness. He says then, “There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way”. After all, what he was really looking for? Isn’t the happiness, we have been experiencing, absolute? Is there any other happiness, other than absolute? We feel happy when we buy a car, land or house or jewels and when we lose them we feel depressed. Our happiness is being controlled by these materials. In olden days, when cars were not invented, did they never experience happiness? Perhaps, they were aspiring to buy bullock carts and when they buy it, they would have delighted. Can we still buy a bullock cart and still be glad for that? “No!”…Because we have been controlled by many external forces. One will think, “My neighbor or my colleague or my relative has a flat/car, so I should also buy them”. If none of them has got anything, we also think, there is no necessity of owning any of them. This is perfectly, not absolute. This is relative . A happiness, which has got its birth out of comparison. Does this mean; no external factors should affect you or your feeling? Not for even heat, cold (I’m aware that there is nothing called cold :-) ), pressure, pollution. All these factors do not directly control your mind, but first affect your physical body and so your mind. Even if you try to control your mind, your body will never accept the change, beyond toleration. If however, a human being gets everything like, tolerable environment factors, basic needs like air, water, and food with all proteins and minerals, and last but not the least a loving and caring partner; will then, atleast, he or she feel fulfilled or still seek for happiness? Yes, Majority of the population does the same. It takes his/her entire life span to realize, what has been felt all over the time, is merely an illusion. I’m not denying that, the perceptions are really different sometimes, for instance sleeping on a stone and sleeping on a cot, makes difference as this again is a case of physical feel. There are even people who have been selling their “sleeps”, to buy a bed. Selling sleep of a day, to buy a bed the very next day, may be a good judgment, but selling sleep of entire life to buy a bed, despite knowing that he/she will never sleep on that bed, is nothing but insane. Bringing sophistication into our lives may be good to certain extent, but too much sophistication can even cause suffocation. What is the limit then? Ask your consciousness! We cried when we were born. We cry when our near and dear ones die and even when we come to know, our death is nearing. Sickness and old age will take away our happiness, as physically the body will become weak, and pain get accumulates in bones and muscles. Can we all go beyond these attachments to gain absolute happiness? What is the other way to get happiness? Some say, meditation gives happiness, as meditation brings silence and peace in one’s mind, and thus happiness. He had said, that one should meditate like earth, like fire and like water, that are not troubled by anything that comes in contact with them. (He is now, not present, but, if were, then he would not have used the simile, as we all have seen, the water is made polluted, that it is made unfit for drinking.) Our hunt for happiness never ends, till we understand that the only way to experience it is to first create it.