Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! _x000D_ Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that our fundamental essence is joy and peace, which is always available to us.
In this quote, Swami Satchidananda conveys the idea that our true self fundamentally embodies infinite joy, peace, and freedom. He suggests that these qualities are inherent and accessible, and that by realizing our true nature, we can experience a lasting sense of happiness and tranquility regardless of external circumstances.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech to inspire people to find happiness within themselves.
If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)
Begin with little things daily and one day you will be doing things that months back you would have thought impossible.
Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.
. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)
When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other person win and have a happy face. Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.
Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.
Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.
I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.
Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
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