If you want to be happy, you should be sad. How many of you want deep happiness? You must go and must become deeply sad. This kind of happiness is of no use, it is coming from others, it is situation-dependent, there is no intelligence in it. There is another happiness that is called as ‘joy’. Find that happiness which nobody has given you and nobody can take away, which is your own nature. Lightness, simple pure lightness!
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Questioner: Sir, what is the purpose of life? Is it earning money, or happiness?
Acharya Prashant: The lady is asking, ‘What is the ultimate purpose of life?’ She has already presented us two options: Earning money, or Happiness.
But you already know. You have already discounted everything else and zeroed in on to two options. What are they? That the purpose could be either to earn money, or to be happy.
Alright. So, let’s first look at these two. What does one earn money for?
Questioner: For livelihood.
