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  1. Gurudev, we can be happy when the people and the situations around us are pleasant. But how can we maintain our happiness when they become unpleasant?

    Just look back at your life and see – how many times has this happened with you in the past. How many times have you been troubled and distressed by a person, an object, or a situation? And despite that you are still whole right now, total and com ...
  2. Gurudev, are you happy?

    How do I look? Do I look happy? I’m very happy that you are all here. You have traveled from so far away; took so much trouble to come here, how can I not be happy? You have all come from all over the world, spending so many hours on the flight. I ...
  3. Are you happy with The World Culture Festival?

    See, I am happiness, nothing need make me happy. I don’t have to derive happiness from any event. I am happy and the event happened very well, and it has become the talk of the town; the talk of the world, in fact! Everywhere people are ...
  4. Gurudev, the senses are limited yet our desire to enjoy is unlimited. Please speak on this.

    This is the problem! The capacity of the senses to enjoy is limited but the desire in the mind is unlimited. This discrepancy between wanting to enjoy and the ability to enjoy causes all sorts of ailments.Bulimia is one such ailment. Bulimia is on ...
  5. Gurudev, what is the secret to happiness?

    The secret to happiness is in being without desires, and in focusing on how you can serve others. The more you serve, the more happiness you will get.Having this feeling, 'I don't want anything for myself, I am contented', bring happiness. An ...
  6. Gurudev, is it practically possible to be ever smiling and happy in life you? What is your trade secret? I promise I’ll never compete with you.

    I want competition! I want everybody to compete with me! I don’t want that promise from you at all. In fact, you should tell me that you will always compete with me. There is an ancient saying, 'Shishyat icchet parajayam’, a teacher always wishes ...
  7. How to maintain happiness? When we receive our exams results, we go from being 100% happy to 0% happy.

    With the strength of knowledge happiness is sustained.Sorrow will come to you. Tell me one person to whom it has not come? How much sorrow came to Jesus Christ, to Lord Rama, and to Lord Krishna. But when you have the strength of knowl ...
  8. When am I truly happy?

    True happiness is when you find inner stability, inner comfort and when you know you are connected to something much bigger than what you can even imagine. True happiness is when you know that there is some power in you which is unshakeable. The love or Go ...
  9. Gurudev, how to be contented and happy?

    You are not happy? You are not contented now? This very moment; right now (Gurudev snaps his finger)!Greed takes away the contentment. It is the, 'I want more, I want more', which makes you miserable, which makes you put so much effort ...
  10. You have said that there are two ways of looking at life. One is, 'I’ll be happy if I achieve this certain objective'. The other is by saying, 'I am happy, come what may'. Which is the better of the two?

    Obviously the latter in which you find happiness within yourself. You see that your happiness is unconditional.One is a taker and the other is a giver. As children when we took things we were happy. But as grandparents, we feel ...