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Pranam Acharya Ji You have beautifully explained. Why do we invite complications in our lives unnecessarily? In 1994, I was in France. A Pakistani guy was selling roasted Kabuli chana on a Metro station. While passing by he smiled. Asked: Pakistani? I: Indian. I bought a packet of chana and offered the money. He declined saying, 'अपनों से क्या पैसा लेना?' Surprisingly, unknown Shrilankan, Nepali, Bangladeshi people used to throw a genuine smile and everybody was considering me as if I belonged to their nationality. Still, accepting as Apne (अपने)।

Happiness has two characteristics; one it is an acquired conditioning and second it depends on the presence of sadness. So, if you want to be happy you must be ‘sad’. How many of you want deep happiness? You must go and first become deeply sad. Obviously, this kind of happiness is of no use. It is coming from others; it is situation dependent. There is no intelligence in it, there is another happiness, that is called ‘joy’. ‘Joy’ is not a product of conditioning; joy is not a product of anything. Joy does not depend upon situations and joy is not stupid. Joy is reasonless, joy is not a product of anything, it is uncaused, it is reasonless. How do you know whether you are joyful, or you are just happy? If there is a reason behind your happiness, then it is the stupid kind of happiness. If somebody asks you, “You are looking so happy, what is the reason?” And you are able to come up with the reason, you are able to tell the reason. Then you should know that this is that stupid kind of happiness, acquired conditioning. However, if you find that you are light, the mind is playful, you're unnecessarily singing a song. And there is no reason why you are doing all this. Then you should know that you have discovered, real happiness. And that real happiness we will not even call as happiness we will call it as ‘joy’. Unreasonable happiness is called joy. That happiness which does not come to you as a product of circumstances, that happiness which cannot be taken away by others, that happiness that you do not work for and attain. That happiness which does not lie in the future, that happiness is called joy.

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Be light , be aware , be loving that's the purpose of life .

Thank you so much Acharya ji 🙏🙏

Acharya ji🙏

Superb

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Powerful answer - and to the point 🙏🌺🌺

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