DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY🔗

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Some time ago there was a popular song that went like this:

Don't worry, be happy! Don't worry, be happy!

It became an instant hit. There is no wonder in this; we all want to be happy all the time.

But we don't experience happiness all the time. We experience only mood swings – from high to low to high again. We feel there is something preventing us from being happy and cheerful all the time. What is it that prevents us from being happy? Why is it that we spend a good part of our time worrying and harbouring negative thoughts?

We all carry a laundry list of worries with us all the time. It is very difficult to predict when we are likely to be joyful, but it is quite easy to say when we will be worried!

When we run out of worries, we create new worries!

We worry when we have no money. We also worry when we have money. We worry if we have no children. We also worry when we have children. For different people, different types of worry exist!

Two girls were spending an evening together. They were catching up on each other's lives after a long gap. One of them said, 'I am getting married soon because I am tired of watching television by myself, eating by myself, paying the bills by myself and what not. The other girl calmly said, 'I got divorced because of that.'

Worries follow desires just as night follows day! Just as desires have no end, worries, too, are endless, or rather, we choose never to end them.

In one of his famous works titled Bhaja Govindam, the great Hindu Master and philosopher, Sri Adi Sankara, sang this verse: