Category:God Gives Happiness
Theme Analysis
The pursuit of happiness is the universal driving force behind all living entities. However, the Vedic literatures explain that true happiness cannot be found within the temporary material energy. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the ultimate reservoir of all pleasure. Because the spirit soul is an eternal part and parcel of God, it can only experience genuine bliss when it associates with Him and engages in its constitutional loving relationship, or rasa. The Lord is perpetually happy, and simply by cooperating with Him, the conditioned soul immediately partakes in that boundless spiritual joy.
Although the Lord is the supreme controller, He respects the minute independence of the living entities. We have the free will to choose our master: we can surrender to the dictation of the material energy and suffer, or we can surrender to the Lord and be happy. God sits within the heart of everyone as the Supersoul, providing perfect direction. The highest wisdom, therefore, is to abide by His commandments and take His direction, which guarantees liberation and everlasting peace.
This happiness is not achieved by artificially halting our daily activities. Rather, it is achieved by purifying them through bhakti. When we divert our service from our temporary material senses to the Supreme Lord—dovetailing our work and engaging our wealth in His service—we unlock the door to true satisfaction. As pure devotional service matures, the devotee is plunged into an ocean of transcendental ecstasy. Great souls like Prahlada Maharaja and Narada Muni have described how the direct perception of the Lord produces overwhelming physical and emotional symptoms of ecstatic happiness, such as trembling and shedding tears of joy.
- The Reservoir of Pleasure: The Supreme Lord is perpetually happy, and the spirit soul can only find true bliss in His association.
- The Power of Choice: We have the freedom to surrender to the material energy or to God; surrendering to the Lord's commandments is the only path to happiness.
- Purifying Activities: Happiness is not found in inactivity, but in dovetailing one's actions, wealth, and service for the pleasure of the Lord.
- Transcendental Ecstasy: Pure devotional service culminates in an ocean of spiritual ecstasy, manifesting physical symptoms of joy, such as tears of love.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Gives Happiness - The Ultimate Reservoir of Bliss.
Subcategories
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
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Pages in category "God Gives Happiness"
The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
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- Every intelligent man should be aspiring for Krsna only and should be satisfied as Krsna likes him to do. That's all. This is Krsna consciousness movement. You try to understand. Take to it. You'll be happy. That is our proposal
- Everyone is hankering after happiness in life, but in this age the members of human society, blind as they are, do not have the proper vision that the Personality of God is the reservoir of all happiness because He is the ultimate source of everything
- Everything is being directed by the Supersoul within the body; therefore the better part of valor is to take His direction and be happy. To take His directions, one needs to be a devotee
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- In pure consciousness, our actions will be dovetailed to the will of isvara & that will make us happy. It is not that we have to cease all activities. Rather, our activities are to be purified & purified activities are called bhakti. BG 1972 Introduction
- In the beginning of creation, the Lord blessed them by saying, "Be thou happy by this yajna (sacrifice) because its performance will bestow upon you all desirable things." BG 3.10 - 1972
- In the cosmos of three-fourths energy of the Lord there is neither death nor fear, and one is full of the blissful life of happiness and knowledge
- It is best for me to surrender unto His feet, which alone can deliver one from the miseries of repeated birth and death. Such surrender is all-auspicious and allows one to perceive all happiness
- It should never be imagined that various mundane discrepancies arise by the will of the Personality of Godhead - that some are happy by His will, while others are unhappy by His will
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- Living entities, being superior energy to matter, have choice and discrimination either to surrender unto the Lord or to surrender unto material nature. By surrendering unto the Lord, one is happy and liberated
- Lord Ramacandra became King during Treta-yuga, but because of His good government, the age was like Satya-yuga. Everyone was religious and completely happy
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- The bamboo trees standing by the banks of the rivers & the lakes were also happy to see their descendant so engaged in the service of the Lord, just as persons who are advanced in transcendental knowledge take pleasure in seeing their descendants engaged
- The karma-mimamsa philosophers, they do not believe that "Oh, our liberation from this material world and entrance in the spiritual kingdom to be associated with God, that will make us happy"
- The Lord is also perpetually happy, and if we associate with the Lord, cooperate with Him, take part in His association, then also we become happy. The Lord descends on this mortal world to show His pastimes in Vrndavana full of happiness
- The Lord is perpetually happy, and if the living entities associate with the Lord, cooperate with Him and take part in His association, then they also become happy. BG 1972 Introduction
- The Lord is so kind that He constantly remains with the living being as Paramatma and always tries to convert the living being towards the real happiness
- The Lord may offer liberation or material happiness to a devotee, but after some devotional service has been executed, particularly in Mathura during the month of Karttika, the devotees want only to attain pure devotional service unto the Lord
- The spirit soul can be happy only in the association of the supreme living being, the Personality of Godhead, and nowhere else
- The Vaisnava sannyasis, who are engaged in devotional service, are happy in the discharge of their transcendental duties, and they have the guarantee of ultimate entrance into the kingdom of God. BG 1972 purports
- Think always that the money which is accumulated is the wealth of the Lord. Wealth is considered to be the goddess of fortune (Laksmi), and the Lord is Narayana, or the husband of Laksmi. Try to engage Laksmi in the service of Lord Narayana and be happy
- This Krsna consciousness movement is trying to educate men that "After all, you are servant. You have to serve somebody. You are now serving your senses. Now just divert your service to Krsna, or God, and you will be happy. That's all"
- Those who have actually developed the symptoms of happiness and tears in the eyes by chanting the glories of the Lord are eligible to enter the kingdom of God
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- When one associates with the Supreme Lord and exchanges one's constitutional rasa with the Lord, then the living being is actually happy
- When one is free from all ten of these offenses in chanting the holy name of God, he develops the ecstatic bodily features called pulakasru. Pulaka means "symptoms of happiness," and asru means "tears in the eyes"