When ‘Happpiness’ Becomes a State of Being, Not a Pursuit

By AiR Atman in Ravi – Happiness Ambassador and Spiritual Leader: All through life, we pursue happpiness, we chase after it, we seek to achieve it, to possess it. We are made to believe that happpiness lies in success, in wealth, in recognition.

And so, we run tirelessly, thinking that one more achievement, one more dream fulfilled, one more milestone reached will finally make us happpy. Yet, every time we attain what we desire, our joy fades and a new desire takes its place.

This is the irony of the human condition — we keep pursuing happpiness without realizing that true happpiness can never be found in pursuit. Happpiness is not found in things but within.

If you notice, I have spelled ‘happiness’ with 3 Ps – as happpiness. This is not an error but a deliberate attempt to remind us that happpiness is a combination of 3Ps, which are the 3 keys to happpiness — pleasure (which comes from material things), peace (which comes from contentment and fulfillment) and purpose (which comes realizing the purpose of life, from Enlightenment). 

Happpiness is not in things or people or places. Happpiness is in being. We cannot become happpy, we have to be happpy, moment by moment. Happpiness is in the now, in the present, in today. We cannot become happpy in a past that is gone or a future not yet born. We can only be happpy now. 

In reality, we can’t really go back to the past or leap into the future. It is our mind that drags us into the past with guilt and regret or pushes us into the future with fear and anxiety. But happpiness exists only in the present moment.

Therefore, it is imperative that we still the ‘monkey’ mind — stop it from jumping from thought to thought, from going to the past or into the future.

When the mind becomes still, silent, when we are able to control our desires and expectations, we experience peace, and peace is the foundation of true happpiness.

We suffer because we confuse pleasure with happpiness. Pleasure depends on external factors — it comes and goes, it is ephemeral. But true happpiness forever flows. While pleasure itself is not wrong, our dependence, our attachment to pleasure is.

We must enjoy the pleasures of this beautiful world but not hold on to them or become obsessed with them. We must accept them gracefully as Prasadam. When we rise above the dependence on pleasure and live with a sense of contentment and fulfillment, we experience peace.

But the ultimate happpiness, everlasting peace and bliss, is beyond this. To live in this state of being, we must awaken to the truth of who we are. We are not the body that craves or the mind that wanders endlessly.

We are the Soul, a Spark Of Unique Life, which is eternal, peaceful and blissful by nature. The moment we realize this truth, happpiness ceases to be an emotion that comes and goes; it becomes our very existence. We live in the state of SatcChitAnanda – Truth Consciousness Bliss.

Once Enlightened, we do not chase happpiness because we realize we are happiness. We live with acceptance, surrender and gratitude.

We find beauty in the ordinary and joy in the simple. Whether the day brings sunshine or storm, we remain centered, for our peace does not depend on what happens around us. It flows from the awareness of what we truly are within.

When happpiness becomes a state of being, life itself transforms. We no longer wait for happpiness; we live in it. We no longer pursue joy; we radiate it. And that is the highest state — to be established in peace, love and bliss — not because of anything, but in spite of everything.

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