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🧵A #MustRead : #Jagadguru #Shankaracharya #SriSri #Chandrashekara Bharathi Mahaswamigal on the "Conquest of Desire":

"Do not depend on outside things to make yourself happy.."

To call a man healthy, it is quite unnecessary to postulate of him that he had some disease..

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before and that he is now cured of it. Freedom from sickness is a condition of health and certainly not an antecedent sickness and a recovery from it. Similarly, happiness can only mean freedom from unhappiness. And it cannot be a necessary condition of happiness that it

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should have been preceded by a state of unhappiness. The health which is not preceded by sickness is more natural, true and permanent than the one obtained on the cessation of a sickness. Similarly, happiness which is not preceded by a mental disturbance is sure to be more

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natural, perfect and enduring than the one which follows mental disturbance.
A man can be happy and remain happy if he declines to submit to anything which is likely to disturb his mental equilibrium. It is impossible to regulate, modify, create or annihilate at our pleasure

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the infinite things capable of causing unrest either by attraction or by repulsion. We can however regulate our own minds and train them to be undisturbed by anything. Our forefathers were happy not because they had more objects of pleasure or less causes of trouble, but

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because, even in the midst of this world, they were able to maintain their mental equilibrium which gave them rest, leisure, peace and happiness. They did not depend upon outside things to make them happy nor did they concede to outside things the power to make them unhappy.

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We must also cultivate that attitude if we want to be happy.

Snippet from the book "Our Duty" based on the talks of Jagadguru Sri Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati

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