PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
WHY IS HE HAPPY ALL THE TIME


Why is Paramhansa happy...all the time?

Let's explore why, perhaps with deeper understanding (or at least a view that might illuminate this).

Let's unravel  this and put it together in another way that might make sense and better illuminate what is going on and what is true.  (The quotes are from the book: How To Be Happy All The Time - Paramhansa Yogananda.)


































































"If you retain the joy and thrill of meditation [being connected to "good"] during the entire day, you are still meditating.  You are then unattached to the senses."

This means you are not a prisoner of impulses, primitive mini-signals, and primitive thoughts of danger, lack or discomfort.  Also, followers are not attached to the results of what they are attempting to do, for their well-being is not dependent on filling a "lack" since they are filled with appreciation of what is so (and the like).


IMPRINTING "THE TRUTH"

"Always affirm [repeat, imprint] with intelligence and devotions until your thought goes consciously through the subconscious mind into the superconscious mind.  The greatest healing you should pray for is the healing of your ignorance, so that you will never go back to your old [bad results] life."

"Doing an affirmation, one should both say and feel deeply the meaning of the thought behind the words [of truth]; then the thought will go deeply into the conscious mind, then into the subconscious [:memory"], and then into the superconscious.  When it registers in the superconsciousness, it manifests." 

The superconscious is above (super, overarching) the conscious, for it will automatically bring up what is needed and then use it.  This is akin to being, in this regard anyway, "unconsciously competent", which is beyond competent.

The idea here is to do your "practice" to the point where "good, healthy thinking, appreciation, and acceptance" automatically occur and are part of your ongoing background conversation.  For happiness, one must have a highly happy background talk going on as a consistent context for life.   


THE DIAMOND IN LIFE

"If one loses a diamond and tries to satisfy himself with little pieces of broken glass, shining with sunlight, he is bound to be disillusioned [once he realizes they are but glass]."  "He is seeking in the wrong place and can never be happy until he seeks in the right place and finds a diamond. In the same way, the soul [primitive, unthinking mind] tries to find its happiness in the momentarily glittering sense-pleasures, but when it has enough of sense-happiness it become disgusted [or feels empty] and tries to find peace and joy in the soul [Higher Self in this case]."


WITHOUT AN INDEPTH PATH, YOU WILL NOT "ARRIVE"

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You have a life changing, incredibly significant decision to make.  It will determine if you will live a so-so life or a great life that is incomparable to the other choice. 

Please make it well. 

And now is the moment to make it.

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The book is a worthwhile read (though in reading it I convert some of the words, to such as "Higher Self", etc.):  How To Be Happy All The Time - Paramhansa Yogananda.)


THE PROMISE: "The whole-hearted practice of meditation brings deep bliss."

"This ever-new bliss is not born of desire; it manifests itself by the magic command of your inner, intuition-born calmness.  Manifest this serenity always."

(Be clear that "magic command" is a figurative statement, meaning unexplained in actual terms.)


WHERE HAPPINESS IS "FOUND"

"The quest for human happiness is like looking around for  a candle while sitting out of doors in the sun."

"Mostly all they find is relief from emotional or physical pain."  But in doing so, they are "at the effect of" that pain, letting it determine our action of seeking relief.  That is not the path to happiness - it is only a numbing or living off the path in distractionland, unalive.


WHO IS "GOD" IN THIS PLAY?

In this discussion, though you can do otherwise, I will substitute my Higher Self (the actual "I") in place of the term "God".  Essentially, for the time being at least, I am being the God of my own world.


THE LAW OF LIFE

"The law of life is this: The less one lives in harmony with the truth within, the more he suffers; but the more he lives in harmony with that truth, the more he experiences unending happiness."

So, again, a vital point is that you must first learn (put into yourself, within) what reality (and the truth) are, for otherwise you will not have the truth within you.  You must first learn reality as fast as possible to the point of true operational excellence (in life, this means getting great results) or you cannot live the great life.


THE SENSES VS. "GOOD"

""Deep meditation keeps the consciousness always on [good] and lack of meditation keeps the consciousness on the senses." 

Where is the holy grail of bliss?

Since bliss is a state of perfect happiness, it also includes no unhappiness nor emotional or physical upset (pain).  Since I must be serene in experiencing it, there is no "uncalm" in bliss.  I am relaxed.

In my view of it, the reason I am relaxed and calm is that I am absolutely confident that there is no present or future danger that I will not competently handle when it comes up - I am living The Skill Of Fearlessness.  Indeed, in my relaxed existence, I have a constant background conversation thoroughly installed in my "superconsciousness" that consists of the four components of happiness that are, essentially at the core of living a great existence. 

[From the discussion to the left:  The superconscious is above (super, overarching) the conscious, for it will automatically bring up what is needed and then use it.  This is akin to being, in this regard anyway, "unconsciously competent", which is beyond competent.]

The only road to happiness/bliss requires that that the steps of complete learning of how things work in life and how to work them be included.  You cannot leap over them.  You cannot reach happiness through "hope" that people will approve of you or that circumstances will provide it or that somehow, mysteriously, you will know how and what to do, and then do it!. 

If you do not commit to doing complete life learning, you will not be sufficiently skilled in life to create the life you want.  After all, you wouldn't expect an ignorant amateur to build a magnificent 80 story structure well.  So, why would you allow yourself to be that minimally/get-by builder for your life!!!???.

I declare that you will not and cannot be happy without following the deep life learning path.   If you are to have a great life, you must commit and follow through on the steps to achieve that life.  They are laid out before you to follow and if you do not follow the steps, you will not be free of your [self-imposed] suffering and will not be able to live your full happiness - you will have given away a great deal of your life for nothing, wasted it, squandered it.

But if you follow the path and stay on it until you get to the milestone of "sufficient life capability" to "truly know it, for the first time', you will gain sufficient life mastery to be truly happy.

What is your choice?

Here is the path:  The Only Sure Path To The Greatest Life. (Note that some of the steps can be modified but that the essence of each of the overall steps MUST be included if you are to arrive at the life destination with the greatest accumulated happiness life value (and truly enjoy the journey while you're at it, as your life level rises and rises). 
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Focus as your top priority on this path to the exclusion of all other things that are "interesting" or "of some value".  Per Yogananda: "the more wisely we scatter our energies, the less power we have left to direct toward any specific undertaking."






As we all "know"...

We cannot find happiness in the sense-pleasures or "glittering objects".  "It is foolish to expect true happiness from material things [or distractions], for they are powerless to give it, and yet, millions of people die of broken hearts trying vainly to find the comfort in material things [or distractions, relief seeking] which God alone can impart." 

[In the context of this article, The Higher Self, when thoroughly trained in wisdom, can alone impart comfort.]
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