Let me explain:🔗

You have a great desire to eat a particular sweet. When you eat that sweet you feel jov. If you associate that feeling of joy to the sweet, you wish to eat more of that sweet. If you keep eating more and more of it, at one point in time after some sweets do you think you will feel the same joy? No! You will feel revulsion not joy; you will not be able to eat any more. If your joy was associated with that sweet, then you should be able to eat as many sweets as possible and feel the same joy, is it not? But that is not the case. Understand: Your joy is not associated with the sweet.

What is it that gave you the joy then?

When you feel that you are enjoying an object, the moment that object is near you, the number of thoughts in your mind reduces, and when the number of thoughts per second reduces. when vour TPS (thoughts per second) falls low, a feeling of joy permeates within you because you are near vour center, your core. It is because of the reduced number of thoughts that you experience this inner joy.

But instead of associating this feeling of joy with the reduced thoughts in your mind, with the subject, you associate it with the object, that is the sweet. Whenever the frequency of thoughts comes down, you experience bliss.

Because we associate joy with outer world things, we are very easily subject to sway from happiness towards misery. Many people perceive life itself as a great misery.