Indian Spiritual Science

Engagement is an outward activity. It has nothing to do with oneself. Our spirit has no engagement with the external world. It can only be engaged with spiritual activities. But, as man finds it haunting to be alone, he engages with people to overcome this fear. He compromises with the happiness of the soul, thereby making the soul feel alone. In sometime in life, man realizes that his engagement with people has not borne good fruits. It has even made him disengage with his soul. He becomes alone even when alone as he has abandoned his spirit long time back. This is the sad story of the man who dedicates his life to the world, just to ruin it. Engagement of this sort brings immense sorrow. Momentary happiness is not what we seek. We are seeking everlasting happiness. But, genuinely before we even go out to inquire the whereabouts of happiness, we tend to go astray. We engage with momentary happiness as soon as we find it! We have no patience. Precisely, outward engagement de...

Every person in the world craves for happiness . The true goal of man is to be happy, devoid of any sorrow or misery. Due to our vacuum within we have mistakenly equated pleasure to happiness. To some extent these two, pleasure and happiness seem synonymous but they aren’t.  Pleasure is momentary which can be derived through the worldly objects while happiness is eternal. It cannot be experienced through matter or perishable objects. Our boredom, loneliness and sorrow drive us mad. In this state we frantically desire for freedom and happiness. Thus, we begin our journey to find happiness. But, when we meet pleasure or momentary happiness we mistake it to be everlasting happiness. We start feeling we have achieved happiness. Next, we participate in the worldly activities which give rise to another set of desires like name, fame, wealth, respect, status, etc. We work harder to keep that ‘happiness’ alive. Just think: Can we ever keep happiness alive or is it the ...