The book CREATION OF HAPPINESS : THE ENERGY WAR,
A SOUL'S PERSPECTIVE, explains why traditional approaches to happiness have failed and how happiness can be achieved by removing negative thinking from the core.
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 :
The mirage – illusion of
the oasis
Since
centuries, human beings have been trying to find a route to happiness by
methods which are externally focused. We have been seeking to succeed in the
external world, hoping we would find happiness with our efforts but usually, we
get disillusioned because our vision of happiness turns out to be a mirage.
A
mirage in a desert is an illusory picture of water. It gives travelers in the
desert an indication that an oasis is nearby.
Similarly,
our success gives us hope that happiness is nearby, but in life, we keep finding mirages, not real water.
The oasis of happiness seems to move further away inspite of passing one exam
after another to meet the demands of traditional success. But, following success or power or fame does not automatically
lead to happiness.
As a human race, we have focused on
technologically developing the tools of happiness, but we have not yet found
how to develop happiness, per se. It is as if we are desperately trying to
catch our nose from behind the head when it can be caught easily from the
front.
From our soul’s perspective, we are taking
unnecessarily challenging roads to happiness by seeking external success, money
and power while grossly ignoring our soul needs of evolution.
Yet, empirical evidence proves that these
traditional routes to success have failed in leading us into a happy world.
In
spite of the technological kingdoms that our industrialists have created, we face
the same jealousies, fears, betrayals and traumas as people did thousands of
years back, for example, when Cleopatra
was alive.
Kingdoms
have largely been replaced by democracies and battlefields by boardrooms but
the manipulative power games continue.
We
seek to be successful managers, teachers or doctors without caring about whether
the paths of success we pursue help us feel more content or compromised, within
ourselves, as souls!
In
the rat race to succeed, happiness is usually left far behind as we choose to
be like rats running after cheese than peace, forgetting that we have evolved
above being just animals.
As
long as we stay limited to thinking that buying external objects of comfort and
security would ensure our happiness, we would somewhere fail to evolve above
our animal ancestors who were purely focused on the external gratification of
their bodily needs.
Due
to the empirical evidence available, we can’t blindly follow the methods of
pursuing happiness which have been founded by our ancestors, because our
history does not prove that humanity has led an emotionally successful existence.
Instead of finding peace, health or happiness, with our comfort levels rising
on the physical plane; our levels of stress, tension, loneliness, diseases and
depressions have risen, over the centuries.
It
may seem daunting to change our conventional methods of thinking. Yet, the established route of finding happiness,
focuses more on the negative, than on the positive, aspects of life. But, this
focus on the negative aspect of life, i.e., on what is missing in comparison
with another, virtually, reverses the process of reaching happiness,
individually, or as a whole.
A
shift of basic thinking towards focusing more on the positive aspects of life,
than the negative, becomes necessary to reverse the damage on human thought
which a war torn history, has already caused.
Human
thought is influenced by habit and tradition. If we focus on the energy or
feelings underlying our thoughts, we would realize that we have been thinking
the same way over centuries , and repeatedly manifesting the same emotional
experiences, though the external form of our world has changed.
Thus,
swords were replaced by guns and horses by motorbikes but the underlying
intentions still remain the same.
Our
traditional role models have been war heroes who killed others to survive
themselves. It may be noted here that on a practical plane, our role models are
not our Gods. That is because we worship Gods but we do not try to be them. We
place Gods on a pedestal of superiority, miracles and sacrifice and we ask them
for blessings and gifts; while we try to be like our mortal war heroes who
acquired fame, power and money in their competitive pursuits.
But,
there is no account of whether these warriors became happier by appropriating
greater wealth or fame in external terms. Or whether the wars they fought helped
people become more emotionally equipped to fight their internal traumas and
evolve as souls?
The
money which came from wars was usually used in fighting more wars, than in upliftment
of human consciousness towards better management of survival needs.
Emotional
betterment was left to chance as we looked for happiness outside the mind. Is it possible to be unhappy, sad or craving
for love within and find happiness outside by eating or drinking? Can just
pleasing the body make us happy when we are life-force creative particles in
our essence? If being animal like was satisfying , why would we need to evolve towards creating happiness, as souls
in a physical experience ?
The
ever increasing restlessness in societies, the rise in domestic violence,
criminal tendencies, alcohol and drug addictions, medical bills and incurable
diseases , prove that escaping the needs of soul evolution does not help. But,
we are conditioned into believing that the soul does not exist, and that only earning
money, fame or power matters in creating happiness.
Charles
Darwin proposed the theory of Survival
of the fittest for animals but human beings still operate on that
principle, by habit, because they feel they have to win by being above others
in terms of money, which essentially represents food and shelter.
The
unconscious insecurity continues from the animal mind that for one to live,
another has to die – be it physically, financially or emotionally. That is the
basis of competitive thinking.
Yet, being competitive has not led the human race
towards higher levels of happiness, peace or ethereal positivity. To be happy, from
within, as souls, we need to discover our humaneness as distinct from our
animal instincts.
Hence, we probably need to change the
definitions of success which we glorify as part of our mental conditioning from
childhood. Because of social pressures, we train ourselves to compete with
others, to be what everyone else is and that whole mind-set makes us compromise
on our needs of soul evolution.
At an internal level, there are pangs of
having failed even when we feel externally successful because we fail to
achieve that happiness, which we incarnate to achieve, as souls.
Changing
our core thinking to positive is not easy because we become habitual to
sacrificing our soul needs to be happy , presuming happiness to be a
compromise, as defined by traditional doctrines. Yet, each time we compromise
because of fear of not
having in the future, we focus on the negative
aspects of life.
Initially,
redirecting our thinking feels like relearning the alphabet .But, at some
point, we need to realize that we cannot continue with the negative ways of
thinking, simply because we are conditioned into them! Our method of coping up
has not helped us since centuries of trial and error in finding the happiness
we seek through our efforts.
That
we have achieved a state of balance being the way we are, does not mean that we
are in an optimum state of balance. Since, we feel more helpless, anxious and
sick than healthy, happy and at peace on an average; it means that we are
balancing ourselves in a non-optimal, negative state of being.
Generally, it is owing to beliefs embedded in mass consciousness and
stored in the subconscious levels of our minds, that we tend to get
misdirected. These beliefs overrule our individual sensibilities about what
constitutes happiness.
This book aims to spread the soul’s concept of happiness by facilitating
an understanding about what happiness means for each soul self, as contrasted
with traditionally held mass beliefs of what happiness should mean.
By making attempts to know that which specifically resonates with our
individual sensibilities, and contrasting it with the values conventional
thinking and mass culture hold to be true, we arrive at the dynamics of an
underlying internal language influencing our perceptions and expectations, as
contrasted with an externally imposed language.
The intention is to develop awareness of the inner workings of the soul
mind, so that it can help us remain positively expectant through the ups and
downs of life.
As will be explained in the book, remaining positively expectant is
critical to realize the feelings of happiness we seek to experience through our
externally oriented efforts.
The thinking and assumptions embedded in mass consciousness will be
deliberately challenged, leaving it up to each person to determine what holds
true for them individually.
Each of us, while free to believe or discard any statements encountered
in this book is actively encouraged to take note of personal imagery found to
be associated with a meaningful and happy life. (For example, for one person
the image of happiness may appear as realizing one’s talents while for another
happiness may mean having a surfeit of consumer goods.)
In this process of developing awareness of one’s innate self, each one of
us will be discovering what s/he truly believes in while closely examining the
operative concepts and assumptions drawn from mass culture and conventional
wisdom, which have been unconsciously followed.
As ‘each’ soul realizes individual
happiness, we can contribute towards the creation of a happier world as a
whole.
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