Be Happy

I am Happy today. Can you guess the reason why? You might think that I am happy because I achieved something or I am happy because I got a gift or I am happy because I cleared my exams. Anything more? You might be still thinking why I am happy? Well the answer is I am happy for no reason. Sounds crazy? You may think I have gone mad? Are you might scream you nuts!!!

But I am happy for no reasons.  Happiness cannot grow out of any reasons. And if happiness comes out of any concrete reasons, you might feel bad if the reasons are taken away, because you attach your happiness to the reason. But happiness does not depend on any reason and you don’t need any reason to be happy.

Happiness is not something to be achieved. It is not a status. It is not something you run behind. The more you run behind happiness the more it deceives you. You can’t find happiness anywhere for ‘YOU’ are the happiness. Happiness is a state of being. It is related to what you are. Happiness does not depend on possession of things. If you quote your material possessions as the reason for your happiness you are the poorest of all. If you quote renouncing all material possessions as the reason for your happiness, even then you are the poorest of all, because happiness is not collection or renouncing of things.

You can’t relate happiness to things or person. To be happy is just to be natural. All other creatures other than human beings are happy for no reason. A bird does not sing for any reasons. A flower does not bloom for any reason. They bloom because it is its nature and it enjoys the nature. Even if the flower dies, it dies happily. Only human being always tries to find something or someone for his happiness. It is not because he is more concerned about the others. It is just escapism. He is not ready to take responsibility for his own life. If a man says he is happy because of his wife, it is not because he loves his wife but he can blame his wife when she does anything that is not acceptable to him and complain to his wife that ‘You ruined my happiness’.

When a man realizes that no one can ruin or give him happiness except his own self he will start accepting the reality of life. He will stop blaming others. He will understand that happiness is his nature. If you want to be happy don’t ask for it, be happy. Happy does not wait for anything. You can be happy right here, right now.

To realize that happiness is our nature we need to accept everything in its totality. No discrimination between anything and anyone. You know who is the biggest beggar of all? A man who begs for his happiness from others, he is the worst of all beggars. He is searching his happiness outside when it is an inside journey. Look into your own self for being happy. 

So don’t look for a reason to be happy. Be happy. Your existence itself is a dance. It is called the art of loving yourself. Happiness is you nature and unhappiness is what you learnt. 

So let's celebrate life. I am happy right now. Are You?