66. All Search for Happiness is Misery

Qn: I have come from England and en-route to Madras. I shall be going to London to study psychology.

Ans: I wonder if I am the right person to answer your questions. I know little about peoples and things. I only know I am.

What you take to be the " I " in 'I am' is not you. Once you say ‘I want to find Truth’, your mental and physical habits undergo radical transformation. Earnestness is decisive.

Qn: When do I know I have discovered Truth?

Ans: When the idea 'this is true' does not arise. Mind must be purged of false before truth dawns.

Qn: What has Being?

Ans: That which does not depend for its existence, does not need proof, but imparts reality. Whatever conceived by mind must be false. See the unreal as unreal and discard it.

Qn: One must earn money.

Ans: Not for oneself, but for wife and child or to be alive. Were not your needs supplied since you were conceived?

The real is timeless, beyond birth and death. Live in tune with things as they are. Clinging to the false makes the true difficult to see.

Qn: Must I not be happy?

Ans: All search for happiness is misery. Learn to be free from experience. Education helps to earn a living. But it does not teach you how to live. No university can teach you to be yourself.

The old grooves must be erased in your brain. There can be marriage, children, money etc. Have affectionate detachment.

In marriage you are neither husband nor wife, but the love between the two. The mystical is the most practical, making life creatively happy. Consciousness is raised to higher dimension.

You are not the sensual, emotional and intellectual. 'What am I' is the fundamental question of all philosophy and psychology. Go into it deeply.

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