What is Happiness? How to Get Happiness and Retain It for Ever?

Most of us don’t really know what happiness is. We have no clues how to get real happiness? No wonder we don’t know how to keep the happiness for ever. Every living thing in this wonderful planet seeks happiness. Every action we do from the moment we were born is to seek happiness. Yet, how many of us are really happy? How can we find happiness and live with it for ever? Please keep reading….

What exactly is happiness? We don’t know what exactly is happiness. Happiness is a state of mind. Whatever materialistic happiness that we get from this world is not the real happiness. If you get such happiness it can give you only temporary happiness. If you want to not real and they are temporary. For example you may feel happy when you smoke a cigarette, drinking a glass of wine, spend a passionate night with a man or woman you love etc. But are you ever content with all these sensual pleasures? Your interest to sleep with your spouse may decrease, yet the interest to have sex never lessens.

What is real happiness? There is nothing wrong in having a glass of wine, get eternal happiness you should rise above these materialistic pleasures. In other words the pleasures you get with your senses are or sleeping with your spouse to enjoy happiness. However, you should never become a slave to the act. You should be able to live happily even without a glass of wine or smoking a cigarette. You can watch a soccer match on television and enjoy it, there is absolutely nothing wrong in it, if you can stay happy even without watching it if a situation demands it. You can aspire for a Mercedes, buy it and enjoy the ride fully as long as you can stay equally happy when you need to go to a place by bus/walk.

How to get real happiness? If you develop spirituality, you will get boundless happiness that will last for ever. It’s about loving the whole Universe and the all living things in it. In fact all the materialistic pleasures will fall in place once you attain that spiritual enrichment. You will automatically get the money, fame and all that you want in life when you reach that spiritual status. It needs a lot of focus, meditation and wisdom to reach that level. If you can attain that status, you will be able to enjoy the real happiness that will last for ever.

Summary: We all are all the time seeking happiness. Real happiness comes to you when you learn to love the whole world and all the species in it. In short, happiness is a state of mind and it’s within us. If you can grow spiritually you will get all the happiness you want in life automatically. Thanks for reading.

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