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Is your life an expression of happiness?

All those people, who depend on external situations to be happy, will never know true joy in their lives. No matter what kind of a person you are, how powerful you are, even if you are a super human, you don’t have absolute control over the external situation. Even if there are two people in the family, they don’t have total control over the situation. You can manage the external situation only to a certain extent. But your interiority can be taken into absolute control. Now whatever we understand as peace, whatever we understand or experience as happiness or love in our lives, there is a certain inner basis to this. 
One simple way to understand this is; today if you lose your mental peace totally, you go to a doctor. He will give you a pill. If you take this pill, your system will become peaceful. May be just for a few hours, but it does become peaceful. This pill means a little bit ofchemicals. These chemicals enter your system and make you peaceful. Or in other words, what you call as peace is a certain kind of chemistry within you. Similarly, what you call joy, what you call love, what you call suffering, what you call misery, what you call fear - every human experience that you go through has a chemical basis within you. Now the spiritual process is just to create the right kind of chemistry when you are naturally peaceful, naturally joyous. 

When you don’t have to do anything to be happy; by your own nature, if you are happy, then the very dimension of your life, the very way you perceive and express yourself in the world is very different. 

Now you are no more a vested interest because, whether you do something or you don’t do something, whether you get something or you don’t get something, whether something happens or doesn’t happen, you are anyway joyous by your nature. Your actions will rise to a completely different level. When you are seeking happiness through your action, you are always enslaved to the external situation. As long as you are enslaved to the external situation, you will always be in some level of suffering because outside situation is never going to be 100% in your control. Your own family, children, businesses, whatever you have are never under your total control, always. It is in control only to a certain extent. Rest of it is always fluid, anything can happen. 

So yoga is a science of establishing your interiority in such a way that you are naturally peaceful and joyous by your own nature, not seeking it from external situations.

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