Happiness

Spiritual Science Research Foundation

"Released Monday, the 2013 World Happiness Report ranks the happiest countries around the globe, with Denmark, Norway and Switzerland leading the pack.

The report is the second of its kind released by a coalition of researchers including John F. Helliwell of the University of British Columbia and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the London School of Economics's Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute. The team drew upon Gallup World Poll data from the the past three years to rank the 156 countries on aspects such as healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices and social support."

- An excerpt from an article by Sara Gates, Huffington Post

Happiness is something that we all strive for in life, but have you ever wondered why it is that we yearn to be happy? A simplistic answer would be, "Happiness feels good!"

The real reason, though, is that deep within each of us, is a soul (ātmā). The soul is the God within us and one of the qualities of God, is perpetual Bliss (Ānand). Bliss is that happiness which is of the highest order that is not dependent on anything else. Subliminally, we know that a superlative form of happiness (i.e. Bliss), does exist and we struggle to find this natural state of Bliss.

But we make one big mistake. We look for this happiness outside ourselves instead of trying to tap the Bliss within.

Once a person said in jest, “It is so unfortunate that God has created us with our eyeballs facing outwards when we will only find unending happiness if we go within.”

And that is why we get captivated and, quite literally, entrapped by whatever we see in the outside world!

To learn more about how Spirituality can help us attain Bliss (which is beyond happiness) visit: http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/articles/id/spiritualresearch/happiness

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