What’s the difference between happiness found in Sansar and that found within?

What’s the difference between happiness found in Sansar and that found within?What’s the difference between happiness found in Sansar and that found within?
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admin Staff answered 6 days ago

Sansar, being transient, will give transient happiness, whereas the absolute will provide absolute happiness.
But….
Would there be any difference in the quality of happiness in both cases?
Happiness experienced by a drinker while drinking his favorite drink and the happiness of a realized saint, would they be qualitatively different?
Both are happiness.
Bliss means – eternal happiness, Pramila said the same thing.
A wave is made of ocean, and ocean is made of ocean.
A wave is short-lived; the ocean is forever.
Same ocean in both.
So, is the happiness hidden in the drink, friend, or a partner?
Do you think that they are “distributing” happiness, and the person is receiving it from them?
If happiness were hidden in the drink, then the same drink should be able to make everyone happy, but it doesn’t.
The first drink brings tremendous happiness, but with subsequent drinks, happiness starts to wither.
Why?
But why does it diminish?
If it were object-driven, then the same object should “give” happiness to everyone.
If I don’t like beer, beer cannot make me happy.
So, is it object-driven or person-driven?
The truth is, happiness is not in the objects, even if it may appear so.
Then, where is the happiness hiding?
Happiness lies only in one place, within, in the soul, beyond the mind.
When a person runs after an object of pleasure, he is already conditioned to it and desires it. (And everyone has different conditioning for different objects of pleasure).
This desire makes his mind restless.
The restless mind wants to resolve this restlessness.
So, it decides to do something about it.
The physical action we do outside actually starts in the mind first.
So, mind=action (at the mind level).
A restless mind is suffering.
When the mind (through the body) actually acts, and consumes the object of pleasure, the action ends, and the mind is no longer needed.
So, restless mind turns into a restful mind.
Absence of mind = Samadhi.
All external pleasures are due to such a temporarily restful mind.
Vedanta gives a beautiful example to explain this.
When a dog is given a bone, it keeps chewing on it, thinking that the pleasure is hidden in the bone.
But the reality is that while chewing the bone, his gums get irritated and they bleed.
The dog enjoys the taste of his own blood and thinks the joy comes from the bone.
Similarly, we keep running towards various objects of pleasure because of our desires for them.
A temporary fulfillment of these desires gives us a transient glimpse of the inner state of Samadhi (no-mindness).
Since we don’t have clarity about this, we keep running outside all the time.
This describes the whole of Sansar.
One with desires will have transient happiness (a short-lived wave), and the one who has no desires will be in a perpetual state of joy (the eternal ocean of consciousness).
Next time your mind starts running away to something or someone and looks for happiness outside, take a break, analyze the situation, and take a deep breath instead of getting dragged along by it.
Realize, and reconnect with the self, the highest joy of restfulness, the ultimate source of happiness.