I pursued 'life' as a hobby since I caught myself doing so. I don't remember the actual time but I realized, that I was pursuing it for, I don't even know how long. I always wished to know why things happened the way they did. I always was astonished on the minutest of the detail of happenings in life. Life as I know can be described in different ways. Ways as different as the millions of different happenings that happen in our life. If I go on describing life, then even I would be assisting and contradicting myself in each line of this article, so I will just restrict myself to the topic 'Peace and Happiness'.
Life is all about attaining peace and happiness, isn't it? Just wait and think for a moment... I know that your answer is certainly yes. If god suddenly appears out of haze in front of you and asks you a wish, that will instantly granted... then asking for ' peace and happiness' will be the fastest and safest way, to ask everything that counts. Even if these 'two' words feel like synonyms to each other, they are rather very difficult to have simultaneously.
Happiness is a feeling of human mind which makes him enjoy the present decor of life. It is enjoyment that makes you feel this emotion called happiness. Mostly It is the 'transitions' that arouse happiness. Transitions are the changes that happen in life, the phases or the spells that differ from each other are separated from each other with
a 'transition'. This is my own phenomenon so I will have to explain it with an example... If 'sea' and 'land' are phases, then the coast or beach is the 'transition'. ever wondered, why the most beautiful places are beaches- where the land meets sea, or snow covered mountains- where the ice seams meets the sky, or the first rain after a sunny noon, or just why do we cherish dusk or the dawn, and the list is endless, just think of a while and you will find all your happy moments surrounding these transitions. Let me just clear the example a bit more with respect to life-
Ever had something you wanted desperately... that is happiness, now, ask a question to yourself, after a while does that thing provide you happiness. It is just like having a glass of water when you are thirsty, you have one glass and you feel 'good' this emotion is happiness, but what happens with a second glass or a third glass of water? So happiness is just like a mirage the only difference is, it sooths you for a while and then shifts further. It is not completely an illusion but none the less of it.
Peace is a state of human mind which is unaware of the present, past or future, it is just the feeling of 'being'. The state in which the human mind is unaffected by the happenings, even being aware of them. Or it can be achieved by being unaware of all the happenings of life... the point is to a peaceful mind, nothing matters. If a person is
happy, a sad news can steal away his happiness in a simple second, but peace is free and floating condition that has no strings attached. You can very well argue that a mis-happening can certainly get the peace out of your life. The simple answer is... The 'peace' you are referring here is not the actual state of peace. It is not that the mis-happening pulled you out of that state, but the fact is you were already out of the state well before experiencing the act of life. This may seem to conclude that, peace is a state that can not be achieved in a conscious state...
partly and almost perfectly true.
Happiness and Introduction of god
Happiness is just a transition, a temporary phase of life not a state. Peace can be defined as a constant state of flux of mind which is not dependent on the transitions of life, to make it feel soothing. Here you can also say that Happiness is a function of body whereas Peace is a function of mind. Do you think a soothing state of both mind and body can be achieved simultaneously?
Think a while...
I found the answer to be 'no'... and believe me I can present my own case studies as a proof...
Saying a 'no', I do not know if there is certainty to 'anything being impossible' but it may be possible under huge set of constraints and assumptions, that are highly improbable in practical life. So if possible then it is at least out of my reach at this point of my life.
Now, Coming back to god, god is very intelligent and supreme, so he knows you have asked a lot in the first place, he simply denies you your wish and asks you to choose one of them... now he has got you. You tried to outsmart him and asked for a foolproof wish, but now you are wondering you would have rather asked for all that would yield
happiness, ie; the material things in life and asked peace along with it. That would have been a smart move. But now you are in the midst of your everything and trying to figure out something that was always otherwise so basic. Hats off to god, he has proved himself very clever, because if you know the difference, then probably you may achieve
both and god has to do nothing miraculously and still give you all you asked for. It won't even be called a cheating, ha ha... that's why we call god the greatest, don't we.
I spent sleepless nights just wondering which one of them is more important,
Having peace
You can have peace but there are many material things in life that you wish to attain. Human being is a an animal with insatiable demands, it likes to grow. Peace is a state where there are no wants, no desires and may be not even comfort. These 'wants' can not let you attain a peaceful stature as they are specifically the 'opposite' of peace.
These wants are the irritants of the human mind, to prove this just think of what happens to your concentration when you desperately or even sparingly want something.
'Rishi Munis' are said to attain peace by letting everything go, the world, the society, and everything you live with. We don't want that do we? We are so much entangled in our lives that attaining complete peace is not possible, rather it would be foolish, even to run for it. So now we are pointing towards a balance or an equilibrium, is it?
The case of rishi's is just an extreme, that is not the peace we seak here. In this article too the peace is referred to the state which we can achieve in our present lives, we are not going to sacrifice a life for a stupid state of mind that we don't even exactly know, what is?
Now comes the difficult part... asking questions and raising issues is different, and the answering part is tough. I do not know weather I'll be able to put my mind here exactly or not. It is not even exactly clear to me and it is a thing which can not exactly be explained too... it is a thing to be thought off and experienced by oneself. If you
understand the question you don't need the answer but if you do not understand the question... it's no point to answer.
I am an engineer by profession and I can explain this concept it clearly scientifically. To start off with it I would first like to tell you that I am an atheist and still I refer to god more than often. I don't believe that god is an entity, but all and all of everything, you can not please him or dismay him. Being weird but one's god is one
himself.
The duality concept
I take 'god' as a term for reference to understand and even explain. I take it as an assumption, as it is taken in some mathematical problems, in which the assumption is later discarded and still you get the answer. The answer wouldn't have been formulated without the assumption but at the end the assumption is no longer required.
Now coming back to answer,
You will have to update your physics to get it...
I can refer happiness and peace as a simultaneous thing where they both are attached together but they can not exist at the same time. It would have been impossible for me to explain or even understand the phenomenon if I didn't have an example. Yes there is a parallel explanation. The explanation is also as unnoticeable as both peace and happiness but yet so very around us every time
It is 'Light'.
Light is one of the most relevant yet most unsorted mystery of physics but strikingly similar to the phenomenon of ' happiness and peace'. We are here in search of a combination of 'Happiness and peace' , a combination of emotion of both 'mind and body'. I'll state a term for their combination, as they are inseparable yet non co-existent. I call it 'CHEER'. Just imagine how light describes two kind of phenomenon;
One is explained by The wave nature and other by the particle nature. Thus light has dual characteristic. Same as the state of cheer.
Light is an electro-magnetic wave, ie; It is a wave traversing in a direction with two waves that propagate in the perpendicular direction of the direction of propagation and perpendicular to each other. A particle on the classical view is a concentration of energy and other properties in space and time, whereas a wave is spread out over a larger
region of space and time. The question whether light are streams of particles (corpuscles) or waves is a very old one. This "either - or" formulation was classically natural and alien to the advanced "both - and" even the "neither - nor" solution of today.
Now consider other duality- the mass and energy duality-
Light constantly reciprocates into matter and energy, It can not be in both states at the same time, either it is matter or it is energy, you notice which string I wish to pluck here?
Yes, consider cheer as light having dual nature of both peace and happiness. Both are dependent on each other but can not exist at same time. Peace can be transformed into happiness and happiness into peace, I will definitely discuss this at length later with example. Continuing, Cheer is what makes life worth living, It is not a thing to run after, you will have to realize that both peace and happiness can not be achieved together, and neither one is ever lasting. BUt to live a perfect life you will have to continuously switch between happiness and peace ie; live with 'cheer'.
Attaining CHEER
The way of attaining cheer- Neither happiness nor peace should be sort for a long period, the quicker the transitions you have, the more cheer you attain. And that is the state of soothing mind and body.
I hope I have given you the answer as explanatory as the question itself, this is my sight of happiness and peace.
As i said, taking the assumption of god, Now it's time to rollback my assumption...
I explain god as a form of 'energy' and human as a form of 'matter'. They both are the same thing, just that, No one
living can explain god as human can not understand it's own form of energy and when he does, he 'is' the energy, ie;
god. Maybe that is what is referred as oneness with god or unison.
That is my funda of god.
I am always a scientific person but spirituality can be explained and compared to a lot many scientific phenomenon's of day today life. The problem with spirituality alone is that it can not be explained or rather believed without scientific help. Just think about it... how else would I be able to understand the concept of cheer if I didn't have the ideology of duality? If it took us generations to just understand a few concepts of 'light' how can we imagine to understand 'life'?
