WHAT IS HAPPINESS AND WHAT ARE IT’S CAUSES

The man by nature is conditioned and attached to four aspects which can be classified into four parameters,  these are things, events, people or ideas. The difference between happiness and sorrow is in the state of emotions that a person beholds in given situation. Happiness arouses positive or healthy emotions whereas sorrow arouses negative or unhealthy emotions. The degree of the emotion whether positive or negative both depends on the source ( the four parameters stated above ) that induces the type of emotion which a person experiences and that varies from person to person. For the same source, different persons would experience different levels of happiness or sorrow. When anything that a person likes comes to his possession he feels happy and conversely he feels unhappy if he is unable to get that thing he has been longing for. Thus happiness is directly related to fulfilment of his expectation or anything that comes to his possession as per expectation or unexpectedly. When the closest of a person like the spouse or child or close relation achieve anything on his or her own or that was asked to him to do and he succeeds, that brings happiness. There are innumerable such situations when the outcome of an event or the other aspects related to it turns out to be with positive outcome, it brings happiness. But the perception of happiness per se is not induced by the external factors.It comes from the arousal of a positive emotion  in the mind that brings the perception of happiness. However there is another side to it.A person in a sad mood on receiving a good news would not experience that level of happiness, as a person in good mood in the same situation. Hence the pre-existing state of mind ( before that situation) impacts the level of emotion in the ensuing situation. As stated in my earlier blogpost time always flows in the forward direction. And so man has to strive to be happy in order to be in harmony with flow of time which is transient. Therefore it is something which we need to endeavour for in all situation of life , since whatever be the situation it eventually would pass away.