Inner Truth: Be Content Be Happy

There is a famous phrase in Hindi that says ‘The content man is always happy’ (Santoshi Nar Sada Sukhi).  Yet unfortunately very few of us have tasted the sweet fruit of happiness derived from contentment. 

A discontent person has the typical habit of building castles in the air while he is as poor as poor can be. Such people totally fail to understand that it is only by dint of hard work that a man can make both ends meet, and only a man of right understanding can work on the right lines. Otherwise, it is a blunder to let your reason be clouded by passion and thus lose your own happiness. Hence, we should remember that just as food sustains the body so does the mind find sustenance in happiness. So, the saying goes: there is no food as good as happiness. And, to be happy, you have to be content. As Alfred Nobel rightly said ‘Contentment is the only real wealth’. We should therefore not run after securing another kind of wealth and lose the wealth of contentment because contentment is as good as a means of happiness as wealth is considered to be. 

The author is a spiritual educator and columnist. nikunjji@gmail.com and www.bk.ooo

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