Whatever pleases the mind, whatever the mind likes, is called happiness for the mind. There are no complexities in this. Whatever the mind likes, is its happiness.
Obviously the question of liking something, being attracted towards something, arises only when there is a feeling of incompletion. The greater is the feeling of incompletion the stronger is the like. The stronger is the like, the more happy we are. That is the entire game of liking and disliking.
Consider the XYZ plane.
Let the X axis represent happiness. Let the Y axis represent suffering or incompletion and there is a clear linear relationship between the two.
Something like Y is equal to mX (y = mx).
One can increase only with a proportionate increase in the other. You cannot have happiness without incompletion.
The stronger is the pull that an object causes in you, the more certain it is that you have been missing that object. Is it not so? The more you have been missing something, the greater is the pleasure in achieving it. So, to have the pleasure of achieving, you must first greatly miss it. No missing, no pleasure. That’s the XY plane.
Mind operates in law of duality. The law of duality says that in this XY plane if the X variable increases, the Y variable will also increase and vice versa. If X will increase so shall Y, if Y shall increase so shall X, they are related by the equation Y = mX. Where X happens to be happiness.
Tell me, how is it possible to increase X without causing an increase in Y. Can there be some way? Whatever you do in this plane will not help. It is because in this plane the inviolable rule of duality will always operate. But let’s see if it is somehow possible to increase happiness without increasing suffering.
As long as mind remains in its usual plane, it will be confined by, subjected to, the law of duality.
But there is a wonderful power, you could call it an option available to mind, which is to leave this plane. Which is to not to be in this plane at all. This XY plane itself arises from somewhere, from another dimension. The mind has the power to move towards that origin. That origin is another dimension all together.
Let’s have a ZX plane. A little bit of mathematical treatment. A ZX plane vertically orthogonal to our XY plane. In the ZX plane won’t it be possible to increase X without increasing Y?
You can nicely keep Y at zero and keep on increasing X. You have a wonderful thing with you, suffering-less happiness. As long as you are in this normal plane (XY) of mind, your happiness will always be accompanied by suffering. But there is a way, surely a way to have happiness which does not bring suffering along with it which is not caused by suffering and which does not cause suffering.
The mind will have to rise above its dualistic plane. The mind will have to move towards its origin. There the normal laws of duality do not operate. If I want to maximize happiness in the dualistic plane, what will happen? I cannot maximize happiness because before I maximize happiness, suffering will increase so much that I will not be able to tolerate it.
The highest happiness is called Joy. We have taken two very simple definitions. Happiness is that which the mind likes, and now we are saying that the highest happiness is called Joy. But we are saying that with a caveat. We are saying that highest happiness is not at all possible in the normal mental plane as suffering and happiness go hand in hand in dualistic plane.
That other realm, the more fundamental realm. There also the law of proportional increase applies. Just as we have said that Y is equal to MX applies on XY plane. Let say that X is equal to kZ applies in that other realm (X=kZ).
The depth of immersion. That’s the Z axis. The law X=kZ applies. Happiness is increasing with the increase in your immersion. Happiness is increasing but without a consequent increase in suffering.
In the plane of immersion, great, free and costless happiness is there. Without suffering.
Be happy but be fully happy. Full happiness, you will not get there (The dualistic plane). You will only get tainted, corrupted, botched up happiness there. Half your face will be smiling and the other half will be in tears. That’s the story of mankind.
Submitted September 03, 2018 at 03:13AM by acharya-prashant https://ift.tt/2MHjJ8M
