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HAPPINESS (Commandment 8)
The eighth Commandment directs us to "Be happy to eat in constant divine thoughts whatever you get, with due regard to honest and pious earnings".
'Be happy - when we have come to the position of living as per the earlier commandments that enjoined us, to be not revengeful for the wrongs done by others, to know that everything that happens to us is happening because of our actions (Karma), knowing that everyone is our brother or sister, having fixed our Goal as the Ultimate, and are confident of reaching our Homeland with the Master's help that we already got, now we can live happily with what we get. "Be happy to eat in constant divine thought whatever you get". We should understand why He said "Whatever you get". Coming to the Ashram and then (complaining about the taste and quantity of food items, is not a proper attitude) say, "Pooris are not given, Curd rice is not given" is not proper attitude. That is not sadhana. To understand that whatever is given is given in pious thought and the man who gives us is our own brother, is the proper grasp of this system. We have to eat whatever is given as a gift from the Divine.
Eating is for sustenance; we eat so that we may live, why should we live? That is the will of God. God is the Base and happiness is the way of all existence. Our Master brings in the concept of the weaving loom where there is a warp and a woof which interplay in order to bring out a fabric. The fabric of existence is made of the warp of God and the woof of happiness. Master asserts the happy disposition that we should have is next only to the Divine.
It is therefore necessary that we eat not only healthy and balanced food as per the nutritional requirements but it should be coupled with the happy disposition at the time of eating. To live is to live well. Master asserts that it is a hidden dictum of Nature that all should be happy.
Further it is necessary that we go through the results of past actions, which have their own effects. In other words we have to go through bhogam. Really, life has no other meaning. Please note it. Life has no other meaning except in giving us an opportunity to get rid of our samskaras. This is an opportunity given to us. That is the greatness of man's life. Human life is one that is endowed with mind and if we don't use it we are really throwing off a gift. An opportunity is lost. Revered Babuji says "with due regards to honest and pious earnings", Why? This