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11. Sri Ravi Prasad
Respected Brothers and Sisters,
Pranams.
I feel honored to present the paper on the subject of the seminar “Happiest man is he who is happy under all circumstances” in your august presence.
Before joining the system, everything in life seemed to me as can be tackled with mere logic & intellect and the necessity of bringing in God to live in the above condition was not understood/ felt. Intellect plays....and the approach then was to train the mind not to excessively worry about things. The problem then was, there was no charm in life and the question about the purpose of life keep popping up again and again and I used to feel there was no liveliness in life and again this problem is hidden under the carpet. Though I used to go to temples, and self-stamped me as traditional, I was questioning the existence of God (myself) as everything in life just seems only logical. Though I used to feel I was happy(for the only reason: there apparently seems to be no reason for me to be unhappy) deep in the heart I used to feel frustrated and used to question what happiness and life really mean. I did not have clarity on what happiness was and never attempted to evaluate how much happy I really was and, to make things worse, I used to think having a good idea about it is enough to apparently claim to be in that state. I think if the evaluations are not critical and not honest, we can easily fool ourselves that we are already in the above condition.
Before joining the system to attain happiness, sometimes, I used to go to some natural places like
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