{"id":4117,"date":"2013-07-13T01:53:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:53:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:53:31","slug":"36-happyness-and-joy-vol-14-words-of-the-mother-volume-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/14-words-of-the-mother-volume-14\/36-happyness-and-joy-vol-14-words-of-the-mother-volume-14","title":{"rendered":"-36_Happyness-and-Joy.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nHappiness
\nand Joy <\/span><\/font> <\/i><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n


\nCHEERFULNESS<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

Cheerfulness: a joyous
\nsmile of Nature. <\/span>
\n        <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Cheerful endeavour<\/span>: the joy that one finds in the effort towards the
\nDivine. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Mental cheerfulness: it
\nknows how to take delight in everything. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Keep a cheerful mind and
\na peaceful heart. Let nothing disturb your equanimity and make every day the
\nnecessary progress to advance with me steadily towards the goal. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>29 October 1934 <\/span><\/i> <\/p>\n


\nHAPPINESS<\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/p>\n

Happy heart: smiling,
\npeaceful, wide open, without a shadow. <\/span><\/p>\n

 Page \u2014 192<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

You must never forget
\nthat you are much more helpful when you are quietly happy than when you become
\ndramatic. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>5 October 1932 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Be happy, my child, it
\nis the surest way of progress. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>12 April 1934 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Happiness is as
\ncontagious as gloom <\/span>―<\/span> and nothing can be more useful than to pass on to people the
\ncontagion of a true and deep happiness. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>25 October 1934 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Try to be happy <\/span>―<\/span> immediately you will be closer to the Light. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>11 July 1935 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Indeed he is happy who
\nloves the Divine because the Divine is always with him. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>7 March 1937 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

So many problems have been facing me of late. I wonder how they
\nare to be solved happily. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The only way to a true and lasting
\nhappiness is a complete and exclusive reliance on the Divine’s Grace. <\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>19 October 1941<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Always be good and you will always be happy. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span>13 October 1951 <\/span><\/i> <\/p>\n

 Page <\/span>
\n―<\/span> 193<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

Let us always do the right thing and we shall always be quiet and
\nhappy. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>24 May 1954 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Let us seek our
\nhappiness only in the Divine. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>5 June 1954 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

When the Divine grants
\nthe true inner happiness nothing in the world has the power to snatch it away. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>5 October 1954 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Spiritual happiness:
\ncalm and smiling, nothing can disturb it. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Always remember that on
\nthe happiness you give will depend the happiness you get. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>2 June 1963 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The happiness you give makes you more happy than the happiness you
\nreceive. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>4 July 1965<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

To be concerned for
\none’s happiness is the surest way of becoming unhappy. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If we want to keep our happiness intact and pure, we must do our
\nbest not to attract upon it the attention of unfriendly thoughts. <\/span><\/p>\n

 Page <\/span>
\n―<\/span> 194<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

To be always happy, with
\nan unclouded, unfluctuating<\/span> happiness \u2014 of all things
\nthis is the most difficult to accomplish. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\nJOY<\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/p>\n

Joy comes when you take
\nthe right attitude. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Joy comes from
\nsubmission to the divine command. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>6 May 1933<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Joy of spirituality: the
\nreward of sincere effort. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Once a man has tasted the joys of inner life nothing else will
\never satisfy him. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

No joy is comparable to
\nthe feeling of the eternal Presence in one’s heart. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span>4 July 1954 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Joy of integral peace:
\ncalm and tranquil, a smile which does not disappoint. <\/span><\/p>\n

 Page <\/span>
\n―<\/span> 195<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Joy’s call: it is modest and rarely
\nmakes itself heard. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\nBEATITUDE AND BLISS<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

There is no greater
\nbliss than that of being like a newborn child in front of the Divine. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>19 October 1954 <\/span><\/i> <\/p>\n

The immutable Beatitude of the Divine is translated in the
\nconsciousness by an impelling force of progress of an incomparable intensity. <\/span><\/p>\n

This force is
\ntransformed in the most external being into a calm and assured will which no
\nobstacles can overthrow. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>20-21 October 1954 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

To know beatitude is to
\nknow the Divine. <\/span><\/p>\n

To know the Divine is to
\nknow beatitude. <\/span><\/p>\n

They are intimately and
\neternally united in an indissoluble identity. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>30 August 1967<\/span><\/i> <\/font><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

 Page <\/span>
\n―<\/span> 196<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

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