All happiness that your mind feels is directly proportional to how unhappy you are. So, if you want to be really happy, become totally unhappy. This is called the law of duality. The deeper your pain, the more relieved you will be. That is the nature of the mind. When you are moving towards happiness, actually the journey towards unhappiness has begun.
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Questioner: Are satisfaction and happiness same or different?
Acharya Prashant: They are the same as far as our life is concerned. Go into this. Both are related to achievement, both are related to the state of non-fulfillment because we are restless right now. ‘Why I am restless?’
Appreciate this. ‘What is the cause of all restlessness? When am I present? Am I present five minutes back? When am I present?’ Right now. ‘When am I living?’ Right now. Can some of you try to live in the past? Will someone attempt to be in the future? When are you living? When is all your existence? Present. Where is the mind? Past. So, necessarily there is a sense of friction, conflict. Getting it? The mind is lost in other worlds. The real world is here. And our one world is lost in multiple worlds, all kinds of slavery, thousands of influences upon the mind. We are lost in multiple worlds, here, there. Reality is here, mind is wandering there. So, non-fulfillment.
The mind thinks that somewhere out there, where it is wandering, lies happiness also, lies satisfaction also. And what is that satisfaction ? That satisfaction does not lie there. It lies here, being in present. The deeper the mind is wandering, the more it is clamoring for happiness.
