An Eye-Opener!

How many times have you lived an entire day blissfully - without a single moment of anxiety, agitation, irritation, or stress? How many times have you lived in utter and absolute pleasantness for twenty-four hours? When was the last time it happened to you?

These sentences have been running in mind ever since I read them in the book Inner Engineering- A Yogi's Guide To Joy by Sadhguru. I am forced to think on these lines and have been asking myself the same things over and over again. Only the first few pages were enough to make me say "Oh my god! That's absolutely true!"

For example : I was reminded of how content we used to be as kids, and we didn't know of so many ways to bother ourselves. How opinions wouldn't matter and little things would make us the happiest. When we would be happy for no reason and lived blissfully..? It seems to me that a lot of us start losing this quality as we grow up. This specific paragraph talked about how our pleasantness is dependent on external factors when instead it should be a natural state of the body. We rely too much on the outside also comprising of our friends, family, co-workers, etc. when in reality all we should be is content from within. And I have also come to terms with this recently. No matter who it is, giving him/her the authority to control the way you feel is absolutely unnecessary. There is no need of pleasing other people in order to be happy after all.

It is you and only you who can free yourself, in order to remain joyful. Stop controlling what's happening on the outside and focus completely on what lies inside. I have actually started understanding this and I am trying to learn more everyday :)

I really look forward to what this book of teachings hold for me in the coming pages! I think that's it for today but I will end this with one of the best & funniest things that I read in the book. Hope you enjoy it too!