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Dear all,

At the end of the day, most of us want our life to be happy.



Many people believe that happiness comes from obtaining certain objects. They say things like,

"I’ll be so happy when I get my new iPod!” bigger house, substantial bank balance.

However, the happiness associated with obtaining these objects is usually fleeting. Have you ever received something you really wanted only to have it end up sitting on a shelf gathering dust a few weeks later? I know I have!

I purchased a Sony TV of bigger screen in 2003 for a whopping price of Rs.75, 000/-. This was my desire to be happy. I showed it to my neighbors, relatives, and friends. Everybody appreciated and I was becoming happier the more they appreciated on my possession. At present also it is working exactly like a new one with excellent quality of sound and picture. Now nobody watches it as the preferences of my family members have changed. What about my happiness in having a TV?????????????. It does not exist any more.

So, if lasting happiness can’t be found by obtaining ‘things’, how CAN WE increase the levels of happiness in our lives?

I believe that the best way to obtain lasting happiness is to bring happiness into the lives of others. The most amazing thing about happiness is that the more you give away to others, the more you receive for yourself. It is a fact and I have seen many examples including mine. Sending good mails to you makes me very happy.

Water poured into a cracked pot will not remain in it. Unless you have contentment, you cannot be happy.

I can always feel a tinge of sadness in many of my relatives, neighbors, whenever they interact with me. They ONLY TALK on what they do not posses. The crack of the pot is always open in their mind. Unless they seal the crack permanently, you know what will happen to their happiness!!!!!

Whenever your mind declares and compares the happiness with material possession, whatever is the result, the end is no permanent happiness. It will be always temporary. Whenever one desire is accomplished, another rises. I am from a school of thoughts that says, “DESIRES ARE MUST” to move ahead in life –but not greed. We need not be unhappy unnecessarily if few of the desires are not fulfilled in life. Remembering the past bad experiences are of no use to anyone of us to remain happy.

Unless I posses what I want, I will not be happy. I might bleed myself to complete my desire/wants, is also called DOG’S logic. This logic will be explained to you all in my future mails.

One of my relative had a bumper excellent quality crop of tomatoes. When I met him, he was sad, the reason—he did not have any rotten tomato to feed to his pigs. Unnecessary people find sadness and keep on worrying than becoming happy in what they got.

Blind person’s happiness depends on his/her vision being cured.

Deaf person’s happiness depends on his/her hearing being cured.

We all, who are reading this mail, have good eyesight, can communicate, can write, can work /earn. We are the happiest community in this world as we can feel-touch, taste, vision-see, speak—hearing, smell.

Ask those people, who do not have any one of the five senses and I am sure that you will understand how much god has blessed us with. Do not become unhappy in this man made material world.

Abraham Lincoln:

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.-



Albert Schweitzer:

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory of pain.



Alexandre Dumas

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.



 Allan K. Chalmers:

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

I bet, in this world nobody can make you happy unless you decide so.

So, whenever you’re feeling a little low and need a dose of happiness, one of the best things you can do is to focus on making someone else happy. Remember…

“Those who bring sunshine into lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves”