Happiness and sorrow are part of man’s life.

 

Peace eludes man though he may presume that he taken all measures to fetch it. He is always of the view that the other man is happy, not knowing that prosperity is a relative term. Each has his or her own problems and feels perplexed as how to solve them. How to carry them out are detailed in scriptural texts. “Study them, you will get your mind purified and develop character.” The theory of happiness that is bestowed upon one and the grief that another has to face are but the consequences of his past acts, If a person obeyed God’s commands incorporated in the scriptures, his present life will be free from cares. If he had failed to discharge his moral obligations in his previous birth, naturally he will pass through struggle.

Even a person may have committed misdeeds and insulted his own being, but still if he sincerely expresses his regret and submits his plea before himself to forget all that he had done and seeks his own pardon. Its soul, which is pure, and is a part, of the almighty. The protection is bound to come. This is one of His (GOD) greatest fruits and inimitable. He (GOD) does not look into the past of a person. Who repents but goes into his real intentions. It is nature’s convenient to grant asylum to anyone irrespective of caste, sex, or status, provided he is anxious to get totally reformed from his past.

There are many that believe that life is for enjoyment and that so long as they remain in the world, they must taste pleasure. On the other hand there are others who have tamed their mind, controlled their senses, and diverted their entire attention and realization towards the reality of life and nature. The person, who has achieved this will automatically, will get the enjoyment of worldly affairs. This is again the reality of nature and life.

Divine law ordains that happiness and sorrow are part of man’s life. Success will follow failures, and joy will trail grief. But the usual tendency among mortals is to get dejected when made to face problems and forget God when immersed in worldly activities.

Some may ask whether sacred literatures are easy to digest the doctrines embedded therein or understand the import of the episodes. The very rendering of the verses will make the listeners easily grasp the contents. A patient who is asked by a physician to take a few tablets simply purchases them and consumes them as directed, without examining the constituents- chemicals, which go to make the make the medicine. The Mantras in the holy text will confer boons. The manner in which the various characters view with each other to strictly observe the provisions of the moral law will make people emulate their example.

One of the primary lessons in almost all the sacred literature is to make us realize that the other man is more intelligent than we are; we should not under the misapprehension that we are the wisest.

Guidelines to make life happy – Sages and Saints, Out of their deep knowledge and personal experience, have left a rich legacy of religious postulates and guidelines as how people can make their lives happy and peaceful. If the mental condition of a person is perfect, there can be no room for misadventures and wrong pursuits. If the wonderful ideas left by the God’s deputies are zealously followed. There will be no need to feel agitated or depressed.

But to-day society witnesses violence and feels totally dejected all because of the disinclination to uphold the directives prescribed by ancient wisdom. The divine messengers have strictly prohibited us from uttering lies but many of us in the present day are embodiments of falsehood. Even an insect should not be injured; they have stipulated but we now find not only killing of animals but human beings, out of sheer selfishness.

While happiness and grief alternate in every one’s life, the affected person can always pray to God to grant him the strength to bear the agony. When in difficulty, he should be in a position to smile. Man should learn to transform sorrow into joy, how to achieve the same. Shri Krishna श्री कृष्ण in His message – Geeta,गीता Arjuna अर्जुन symbolizes human aspirations and weakness. Shri Krishna श्री कृष्ण was equally astonished. When Kunti- कुंती (The mother of the Pandavas पांडव ), who proved that righteousness always triumph, sought a born from Him that she should even be immersed in difficulties, as then alone there could be total report with Him, otherwise the chances of forgetting the presence of the divine are great.