“You are not happy
And you will never be happy
Because you do not lose yourself
Enough to find yourself —
I mean your true self.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“You want to know how
You can be truly happy.
You can be truly happy
If you can reawaken
Your heart’s sleeping God-dreams.”
– Sri Chinmoy
God is not only the source of happiness within us: God is happiness itself. Our quest for happiness and our search for God are parallel paths which ultimately merge into one. Commencing our journey with the idea or expectation that we will receive happiness as a reward for pleasing or fulfilling God, as we surrender ourselves to the God within, we find ourselves growing into and becoming happiness itself, while radiating and revealing happiness all around.
“No matter which way we appreciate the reality or want to identify ourselves with the reality, we have to feel that we are appreciating and identifying ourselves with Divinity; and this Divinity we call either God or Spirit or Being. If you don’t want to call it God, you are at perfect liberty not to do so. But you have to call it happiness. Happiness itself is God. You can appreciate the beauty of nature and if you are happy, then the happiness that you are getting is God. In one word, if God has to be defined, then I wish to say God is happiness.
“So anything that gives one happiness is God. It can be nature; it can be a personal being and also an impersonal being. God is everything.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“How to be happy?
Do not think of yourself —
Think only of God.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“I am happy, genuinely happy, not because God is mine but because I am God’s and God’s alone.”
– Sri Chinmoy