The Philosophy of Joy By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The sole seek of every getting is joy. Whenever one is searching, whatever one is searching, one is searching for joy - whether it is airy or material, whether it is in the movies, bars, or in the abbey or temple; whether it is money, acclaim or power. The seek artlessly is for joy and the Divine is all joy and bliss. Bliss is annihilation but able joy, a joy that is bare of feverishness, adversity and pain. Adulation comes forth with pain. Silence is a little serious; joy is mischievous. One cannot accept atrocity if there is no joy and Krishna is all mischief. Krishna is complete joy, complete bliss. Annihilation whatsoever could yield abroad the joy from Krishna. If you attending at his life, it was afflicted - he was built-in in misery. Kansa, the uncle of Krishna, is a attribute of ego. Ego is far abroad from joy; ego tries to annihilate the joy in us. Accouchement are so abounding of joy because there is no ego. The moment ego comes, break comes. We abort the bliss, the beauty, that innocent joy. Kansa beatific several humans to annihilate Krishna but was unsuccessful. Krishna, if he was just eight or ten, fell in adulation with Radha, she was abundant ancient to Krishna. That adulation was such a authentic love. Humans did not apperceive why they were in such a adulation with Krishna; anybody would army about him. Mischief is the aftereffect of joy. Accouchement are actual mischievous. Parents say, 'Don't do this!', 'Stop that!' It's actual accustomed for accouchement to be mischievous; we should let them do it. Sometimes it entails agitation for the parents, but there is aswell fun. What is activity after fun? Krishna told abounding lies, played and afflicted humans about him. Humans about him would like to be afflicted by him. Humans would accuse with anger, but the moment they came in his presence, they would alpha giggling, all their acrimony would vanish. In the attendance of authentic bliss, joy, all complaints vanish and activity appears like a play. One can attending at every agitation as a claiming or can absorb it arrant and complaining. You know, what you accept in your duke indicates what you are inside. If you accept a gun in your hand, it indicates abhorrence or violence. If you accept a annual in your hand, it indicates you are like a flower. If you accept a canal in your hand, you are like a canal - alveolate and empty. Krishna has the canal in the duke and the accomplished appearance of continuing indicates his accomplished philosophy. One leg is abutting on the ground. A ball can appear if your anxiety are aboriginal affecting the ground. If your legs are active in the mud, a ball cannot happen. Not even if it is up in the ground. One leg has to be abutting on the ground, the added can be up in the air and again ball happens. Joy is the ball of activity and the activity of Krishna is such a dance. One can brainstorm Krishna everywhere; you cannot define Krishna as one thing. Sometimes he may ride a horse, be a charioteer and in some added abode he can be dancing. Krishna is the attribute of all possibilities, the absolute blossom of all aspects of human, or Divine - whatever you call. It's actual difficult to absolutely accept Krishna's personality. The rishis alleged him the abounding apotheosis of the Divine absolute because all that a animal could be, a getting could be, is all in Krishna. You can see him as the absolute friend. Once one of his abutting aides tells Krishna, ''O Krishna, I cannot accept you. I accept been with you for the accomplished fifteen years, you abash me added and added everyday! At one point I see you as such a adventuresome getting who could abandoned action war with so abounding people, at added times you adumbrate yourself in the closet. You behave absolutely eccentric. One time you are so powerful, addition time so scared. One time you appear out with such a abundant wisdom, addition time you ask me advice.'' One abode he is a servant, addition time baron of the accomplished province, who takes actual acceptable affliction of all subjects. Contrast energies Arjuna was accessible to abdicate aggregate and go to the Himalayas. He was not accessible to action the war. Krishna assertive him. Krishna was a acceptable abecedary because he accomplished as a friend. He said, ''You're such a abundant warrior. Anyway, anybody is already dead. I do everything, you just be an instrument.'' In the battlefield, if anyone could sustain the abyss of awareness, accuracy of apperception if everybody is in such chaos, and accord the accomplished knowledge, that leaves you in awe of Krishna. You can accept a big smile if aggregate is abutting and bland but if aggregate is upside down and you smile, again you accept accomplished something. Aggregate was upside down, chaotic, wherever Krishna went and yet, the smile would artlessly abduction everything. His smile was so abundant that humans would overlook their affliction and joy would artlessly flood. Even the saints would abatement in adulation in that acreage of energy; humans who accept abandoned aggregate would be interested. The abstract one will be drawn. The chat Krishna, itself, agency that which is attractive, that draws everything. The actual amount of your getting is such; the beatitude of the self, the joy of the cocky is like that. It just draws everything. In a allegorical manner, also, it is so beautiful. Krishna was such a charmer that humans could not break abroad from him. Young and old, boys and girls and even the rishis, could not break away; they would just chase him around.Biyang Tri Reverb The gopis said, ''the adulation amid you and me; alone my body knows.'' The abyss of the love, joy, and adherence was like bonfire all about Krishna. In adulation there is 2 percent lust. In animalism there is 2 percent love. You may accept noticed if accouchement are in abysmal love, they appear and hug, adhere to your neck, kiss you, lick all locations of your face. What do you alarm it, adulation or lust? Love. But the act is actual lustful. It's the aforementioned affair with a puppy. If you appear aback home, the puppy will jump all over you and lick you by which it is cogent its adulation to you. Intense adulation wants expression. You hug, agitate hands, accord flowers... annihilation absolutely satisfies. Adulation cannot be absolutely expressed, yet it cannot be after expression. That's the attributes of joy and love. It wants to acquisition an expression. The adulation of the gopis and Krishna was such a love. Krishna agency the a lot of attractive. It is the divinity that is the a lot of attractive; the activity that pulls aggregate to it. Krishna is the amorphous centre which is everywhere. Any allure from anywhere is advancing alone from Krishna. Often humans abort to see the spirit abaft the allure and alone authority on to the alien shell. And the moment you try to acquire the shell, you will see Krishna has played a ambush and you will be larboard with an abandoned carapace in your easily and tears in your eyes. The apperception moves appear beauty, joy and truth. Krishna tells Arjuna, ''I am the adorableness in the Beautiful, the backbone in the Strong, the acumen in the Wise.'' Be able like Radha - don't be tricked by Krishna. Krishna could not escape from Radha, for, her accomplished apple was abounding with Krishna. If you can see that wherever there is an attraction, there is Krishna; again you are Radha, you are in your centre.