To always remain happy is the highest form of devotion

The Self realized saint from India, Bapu Asaramji, quotes that, “To always remain cheerful and happy is the highest form of devotion to God.” The true God resides in our heart. When you are worried or distress, you remain ignorant about the divine presence in your heart. When you seek true wisdom of the Self, give importance to spiritual quest and begin to remain happy at all the times, it becomes the highest form of offering to the inner God.

When you give gift to your loved ones, you are delighted when they become happy, show their gratitude or make proper use of your gift. Similarly, life is a precious gift of God. God is also delighted when you show your gratitude, treat your life as a precious gift, consider it as a celebration, remain cheerful and make others cheerful.

Everyone remember God during distress or the tough situations of life. However, when you remember God during the happy moments of life, and pay your gratitude for all the blessings, the inner God smiles at once and bless you with the true form on inner joy. When you remain balanced even during the tough times and offer prayers to God, the inner God bless you with strength and equanimity. When you help others selflessly, the inner God smiles and you experience the higher form of inner happiness without any delay.

It is a common experience that persistent happiness cannot be achieved by dinking, eating and go merry attitude. It cannot be achieved by having endless desires and then enjoying the worldly sensual pleasures. In fact, the sages of the East found the ever lasting persistent happiness within themselves by becoming free of all the worldly passions. Persistent inner happiness can be realized when you begin to seek tranquility of mind instead of worldly pleasures, when you begins to give importance to the wisdom of Self instead of worldly knowledge, when you begin to take out time for yourself instead of remaining busy in worldly affairs, when you begin to become spiritual instead of just limiting yourself with the religious rituals, when you help others without any selfish motives, when you begin to contemplate and meditate.

A sufi fakir sang: “ Muskoora kar gam ka jhar jisko pina aa gaya; Yeh hakikat hai ki jahan mai usko jina aa gaya” meaning “Those who have learned the art of smiling during the grief, it is true that they have learned the art of living in this world.”