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yajvan
23 February 2007, 11:31 AM
Hari Om
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Namaste mauni [ one who sliently meditates on the SELF]


I thought to write on this notion of sukham, or happiness. If we look to the wisdom of Sri Sanatkumara-ji for guidence, He says The following :
Yo vai bhuma tat sukham, nalpe sukham asti, bhumaiva sukham,
Bhuma tveva viijnasitavya iti, bhumanam, bagavah, vijivnasa iti.
Happiness is bhuma, fullness, pleunum, finite things do not contain happiness, Happiness is the totality, happiness is the absolute.

Now the question: If finite things do not contain happiness why do we feel some happiness in our lives? Why do we pursue the acquisition of objects that at times bring happiness even for a small amount of time? How can this be?
Consider the following…the desire for this fullness, bhuma, [I]when projected through our senses, becomes the desire for possessions/objects. Why? We are looking for completeness, fullness that gives this sukham.
The mind is looking for that possession that satisfies itself. An object for a short time does this, then the mind analyses and says I still am not full, complete. So, whenever this is this sensation of completeness it delivers the feeling of sukham, happiness. That is why nalpe sukham asti, finite things do not deliver complete happiness because they are bound and limited by size, shape, time, and cause. What does not have these limitations? Bhuma, Fullness of the Absolute or avyakta. This is also written a-vaktavya or a = 'not' + vakya= 'speech-word'. And Vak is Vagdevi, the mother of speech, and owns the primordial Word. She is the sound that becomes all sound. So this Absolute is the unspeakable, indescribable, inexpressible, that is this Fullness. This is what can satisfy completely because its inexhaustibly Infinite, and therefore must be able to give this completeness as fullness to the mind which gets completely absorbed.

Two posts that may add additional insight:
http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10172&postcount=1 (http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10172&postcount=1)Absorption
http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9946&postcount=1 (http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9946&postcount=1) Finite things do not contain happiness

Pranams,