Mudita and Upeksha

We also need to cultivate the spirit of sympathetic joy, with this joy and happiness to others. We also have the need to develop the spirit of joyfulness and good cheer within ourselves. Deep down in our nature, at our very base and foundation, there is a spring of unbounded joy and happiness and we have to release its life giving waters and bathe ourselves in it daily.

Unless we have the feeling of happiness within ourselves, we cannot grow infectious in this virtue and communicate it to others. To make others happy, we have to be happy in ourselves, for it, the sources of happiness are dry in ourselves, we cannot radiate happiness to others.

there is always some joy, some happiness abroad, in this very wide world. Rejoice in the thought of this happiness. Let this sustain us in our faith and even in hours when darkness surrounds us from all sides and there be just one streak of light. Break down all barriers, suffuse the whole wide world and all beings with sympathetic joy and let them receive our radiation and be happy.

Upeksha

All life is transient as it is a vibrating current, pulsating with life but which is also on the move, and always in the process of change. There is naught in this world which is permanent. The cosmic forces are beyond us.

One change of fortune, one stroke of misfortune can destroy in seconds the work of centuries long. Love, compassion and joy are good emotions, they are virtues which need to be cultivated but would these stand as always in good stead if we have not cultivated Upeksha?

Unless we have cultivated equanimity, we cannot have serenity and our joy and happiness will not be well founded. We must therefore cultivate the spirit of equanimity. We should keenly seek serenity for ourselves and wish it for others.

We must cultivate a heart which would remain untouched by worldly things, a heart which will not swayed by sorrows and sufferings, a heart which can remain passionless and secure in all temptations and provocations. We need to acquire a central position towards the world, see it objectively and acquire a poise in which our inner core, the very flame of life will remain unwavering and steady whatever be the luck that befall us for good or evil.

We should be able to face both triumphs and disasters with the same poise. Without meditating on equanimity, we cannot acquire serenity and without serenity, we cannot taste the bliss of Nirvana.

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