Comfort Vs Happiness

Man’s eternal search has always been for being blissful or of being happy. This state of being happy is not a bodily state that can be attained through any physical efforts of man. Ironically the human beings have always longed to be happy through their manpower, intelligence and emotions.

Human beings have suffered a lot through ages due to the natural forces which he could not control and was always afraid off; this has inspired man to invent and designed so many things in order to control the nature. They have controlled rivers through big dams, heat through air conditioners and invented air planes for transportation etc.  They have also tried to be happy by attaching themselves emotionally to objects and people around them. All these emotional attachment and inventions together have made man’s life more secure and comfortable.  But the million dollar question which can be asked over here is that “Has man reached any nearer to his goal of being happy? “ the answer to the question would be a big no, as no amount of machines, gadgets and attachments can make man happy.

The real source of happiness is in our mind which quite often mistakes the comfort derived thorough materials and attachments as happiness.  In Gita, lord Krishna has clearly called all the materials and attachments as the source of grief, as all the objects have been found to go through three stages of non-existents, existents and destruction.  Humans have derived lots of comfort by controlling the Mother Nature in the similar way we can also reach our goal of happiness by controlling our minds. This takes lot of exercise in checking the balances of our efforts to attain our wants and restraining our efforts to run after our desires. It also means to cultivate virtues and eliminate the vices in our life to attain that blissful state which is an ultimate goal and right of every human life.