Chandogya Upanishad: ( 30/03/2013. )

========================================================================= Monday, January 30,  2023. 07:30. Chapter - 3 : Sanatkumara's Instructions on Bhuma-Vidya : SECTION 22: HAPPINESS : ========================================================================= "Yada vai sukham labhate'tha karoti,  nasukham labdhva karoli,  sukham eva labdhva karoti,  sukham tveva vijijnasitavyam, iti,  sukham, bhagavah, vijijnasa iti." "Well, O Narada, I tell you, nothing can be done unless it is propelled by happiness. Everywhere you will find happiness is the object of every kind of aspiration, activity, desire or enterprise. You will find, prior to everything conceivable, there is the presence of happiness. Everyone, irrespective of the character of one's individuality, tries to be, to act and to conduct oneself in different ways, because of this happiness. You must know what happiness is. It is this that is the propelling force behind everything in creation," says

========================================================================= Monday, January 16,  2022. 07:30. Chapter - 3 : Sanatkumara's Instructions on Bhuma-Vidya : SECTION 19: FAITH SECTION 20: STEADFASTNESS SECTION 21: ACTIVITY : ========================================================================= SECTION 19: FAITH : Yada vai sraddadhati, atha manute, nasraddadhan manute, sraddadhad-eva manute, sraddha tveva vijijnasitavyeti, sraddham, bhagavah, vijijnasa iti. Sraddha, faith in the existence of Reality, and the working of this tendency of movement of one's being towards Reality are almost simultaneous. How do we know that Reality exists? That is a faith that is in our mind, introduced into us by the very tendency of Reality urging itself forward towards its own Self-realisation. This faith is superior to thought and understanding. It is not what we call blind faith, but an irrepressible feeling in us that Reality is. It must be there. We do not have any doubt about Its