Happiness => Gratefulness => Humility => Receiving Knowledge => Happiness
When I was asked at age 12, "What do you want to be when you grow up?", after the whole class had said there thing, from fireman, to princess, I took my time, and thought hard and after long deliberation I said: "I want to be happy."
Happiness is the essence in life, the goal if you like. Everybody wants to be happy.
Real happiness is eternal, because temporary happiness is just that, temporary.
To become eternally happy one has to know what makes one happy, and in order to know what makes one happy one needs to know what one wants, and in order to know what one really wants, you need to know who you are, or what you are.
This is explained by Lord Krsna in Bhagavad-gita: That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul. (BG 2.17).
If there is a soul, there must be the creator of the soul God, or Krsna, the all attractive. To connect with Krsna, we can simply chant His name, since God is absolute.
Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
If you are a soul, and Krsna is God, our eternal father and well-wisher, our long lost love (forgotten, not really lost), then when we chant His names, (since God is absolute, the name of God, Krsna is non-different from Krsna), we will become happy.
When we are happy we can become grateful, when we are grateful we can become humble, and when we are humble we can receive knowledge, and when we can receive knowledge we can become more happy, because we know what to do, and how to do it (expertly), how to become happy.
So simply chant Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, and become more happy, and (optional ;) ) gain more knowledge.
Happiness is the essence in life, the goal if you like. Everybody wants to be happy.
Real happiness is eternal, because temporary happiness is just that, temporary.
To become eternally happy one has to know what makes one happy, and in order to know what makes one happy one needs to know what one wants, and in order to know what one really wants, you need to know who you are, or what you are.
This is explained by Lord Krsna in Bhagavad-gita: That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul. (BG 2.17).
If there is a soul, there must be the creator of the soul God, or Krsna, the all attractive. To connect with Krsna, we can simply chant His name, since God is absolute.
Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
If you are a soul, and Krsna is God, our eternal father and well-wisher, our long lost love (forgotten, not really lost), then when we chant His names, (since God is absolute, the name of God, Krsna is non-different from Krsna), we will become happy.
When we are happy we can become grateful, when we are grateful we can become humble, and when we are humble we can receive knowledge, and when we can receive knowledge we can become more happy, because we know what to do, and how to do it (expertly), how to become happy.
So simply chant Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, and become more happy, and (optional ;) ) gain more knowledge.
Wonderful line of logic!
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