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Everyone is pursuing Happiness.

Its everyone’s right to be happy.

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How many of you want happiness
and peace in your life to increase
and last long?

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To reach the pinnacle of happiness let’s
try to understand our current reality

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Different ways we are seeking
happiness

1. Sensual
2. Relational
3. Intellectual
4. Identity

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 Sensual
Happiness

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We have 5 senses. When the senses
meet the sense objects there is an
experience of pleasure.
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 FORM

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SOUND

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SMELL
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TOUCH

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TASTE

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Relational Happiness
We all like to love and be loved

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Couple

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Friends

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Mother
& Son

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Intellectual Happiness
Understanding truth is pleasurable

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 Identity Happiness
We want to be the cynosure of all eyes.
Fame, power, glory are very pleasing.

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 ACTIVITY
I am Happy Hare
Krishna

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Drawbacks in our current
conception of Happiness

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 Sensual
1. Acquiring sense objects needs
money.

2. Earning money is Hard Work!

Possibilities in our chase

for sensual happiness
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a) Work hard and fail.

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b) Work hard, get it
and then become
unhappy

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c) Work hard, get it, indulge
and then bored.
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If the urges of the senses are
not checked….

Dire consequence

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LUST

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GREED

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ANGER

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In animal kingdom this
weakness is exploited…

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Male rogue elephant is captured by a
Trained female elephant
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 Deer stunned by
flute of the hunter
and attacked
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Fish caught by
bait

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Bees trapped
by fragrance
of Lotus
flower

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Moths rush into fire

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Bhagavad-gita 5.22

ye hi saàsparça-jä
bhogä
duùkha-yonaya eva
te
ädy-antavantaù
kaunteya
na teñu ramate
budhaù
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 Translation
An intelligent person
does not take part in the
sources of misery, which
are due to contact with the
material senses. O son of
Kunti, such pleasures have
a beginning and an end,
and so the wise man does
not delight in them.

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 An intelligent person
does not take part in the
sources of misery,
which are due to
contact with the
material senses.
O son of Kunti, such pleasures
have a beginning and an end,
and so the wise man does not
delight in them.

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 Relational
Everyone wants to enjoy long
lasting loving relationships, but
this is far from reality…

“what's in it for me?”

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Friends and Relatives desert
us when we are in need
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Divorce

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Intellectual joy
Joy of knowing

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Even the best of scientists have no
satisfaction of intellectual joy.
Nobody can know everything…
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Stephen Hawking

Theory of
Everything

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Stephen Hawking
“However, if we
discover a complete
theory, it should in
time be
understandable by
everyone, not just by
a few scientists.

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Stephen Hawking
Then we shall all,
philosophers,
scientists and just
ordinary people, be
able to take part in
the discussion of the
question of why it is
that we and the
universe exist.

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Stephen Hawking
If we find the answer
to that, it would be
the ultimate triumph
of human reason
-- for then we should
know the mind of
God.”

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Sir Issac Newton
“I was like a boy playing
on the sea-shore, and
diverting myself now and
then finding a smoother
pebble or a prettier shell
than ordinary, whilst the
great ocean of truth lay all
undiscovered before me.

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Sir Issac Newton
“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore,
and diverting myself now and then finding a
smoother pebble or a prettier shell than
ordinary, whilst

the great ocean

of truth lay all
undiscovered
before me.

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Sir Issac Newton
“What we know is a drop,
what we don't know is
an ocean.”

“Gravity explains
the motions of the
planets, but it cannot
explain who sets the
planets in motion.”

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Identity happiness
Joy of fame, glory and power
It’s is momentary.

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Muhammad Ali

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Muhammad Ali
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Is it possible to overcome the above
drawbacks of my current reality of
Happiness?

YES
But How?
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 Before Addressing how ‘I’ can
experience Real Happiness, let us
know who ‘I’ am?

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'IT belongs to ME’

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 STORY

Confused Identity
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Bhagavad-gita
2.13
dehino 'smin yathä
dehe
kaumäraà yauvanaà
jarä
tathä dehäntara-
präptir
dhéras tatra na
muhyati
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Translation
As the embodied
soul continually
passes, in this
body, from
boyhood to youth
to old age, the
soul similarly
passes into
another body at
death. The self-
realizedThesoul is
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As the embodied soul continually
passes, in this body, from
boyhood to youth to old age,

the soul
similarly
passes into
another body
at death.
The self-realized soul is not
bewildered
by such a change.
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 Bird in
a golden
cage

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What is happiness of the
Spirit Soul?
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5.21
bähya-sparçeñv
asaktätmä
vindaty ätmani yat
sukham
sa brahma-yoga-
yuktätmä
sukham akñayam
açnute
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 Translation

Such a liberated person

is not attracted to
material sense pleasure
or external objects but
is always in trance,
enjoying the
pleasure within. In this
way
the self-realized person
enjoys
unlimited happiness,
forThehe
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 Such a liberated person is not
attracted to material sense pleasure
or external objects but is always in
trance, enjoying the pleasure within.
In this way

the self-realized
person enjoys
unlimited
happiness, for he
concentrates on
the Supreme.
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 YOGA
Root word-Yuj

Which means to connect

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Bhagavad-gita
6.22-23
sukham ätyantikaà yat
tad
buddhi-grähyam
aténdriyam
vetti yatra na
caiväyaà
sthitaç calati
tattvataù

yaà labdhvä cäparaà

läbhaà
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Translation
“In the stage of
perfection, one is
situated in boundless
transcendental
happiness and enjoys
himself through
transcendental senses.
Established thus, one
never departs from the
truth, and upon
gaining this he thinks
there is no greater
gain. Being situated
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6.22-23
one is situated
“In the stage of perfection,

in boundless transcendental
happiness and enjoys himself through
transcendental senses. Established thus, one never departs
upon gaining this
from the truth, and

he thinks there is no greater

gain. Being situated in such a position, one is never
shaken,
even in the midst of greatest difficulty.”

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 Why have we
forgotten our
Real Happiness?

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Nature of Material happiness

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 Activity

Draw a scenery

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How to overcome this
conditioning?
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Acquire Divine
Knowledge

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Result of being self-realized from
Bhagavad-gita
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1. He is in full control of his mind and the
senses.

2. He gives up pursuing bad habits.

3. He not disturbed in spite of stress, anxiety,

competition, and he is free from attachment,
fear and anger.

4. His thoughts, words and actions are

dedicated for the loving service of the Lord.
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Practice Meditation

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 Summary
1.Pleasure due to contact of senses with sense
objects is temporary and limited

2.Best of material relationships have to end

3.Intellectuals with the greatest IQ also cant

know everything of this world and beyond

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 Summary
4. Identity joy of name, fame, power all have
limitations

5. Linking up with GOD is the way to attain

Real Happiness

6. This can be done by practicing Meditation

and by acquiring divine knowledge

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Pursuit of Happiness…

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Thank you

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