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  1. Gurudev's short quotes about happiness

    Happiness is when you want nothing, and you want to give.Where the wanting & desires end,and the sharing begins, happiness is exactly there.!1. Happiness is a state of mind. When the mind is free of past regrets and future cravings, you are naturally ...
  2. 3 reasons why you’re not happy

    We all stumble at some point in life and a guide/Guru helps us find our way. In one such instance, a disciple asked Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar about the cause of our misery. Gurudev then unfolded three main reasons for us not being happy. Why you’re not ...
  3. 10 Ways Travel can Boost Confidence & Happiness

    "It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” As you take trips to new places, do you often wonder why traveling makes you happy? Do you feel relaxed and rejuvenated when you pack your bags and venture out? Well, that’s the magic of travel. Trav ...
  4. How to be woke and happy at the same time?

    “I wish I were a dog!”  “Why?” “They always seem so carefree, happy, and relaxed.” “Why don’t you try being that way then?” “But then I feel like I am living in denial and not facing the reality of life. I mean I want to be happy but I don’t want to be ig ...
  5. 10 steps to happiness

    In the world, people are either dreaming of happiness or remembering happiness. That is either being in the past or the future. But happiness is that which is in the present. Many times you postpone your happiness until some perfect future date, but it ne ...
  6. Happiness that comes from making others happy

    Happiness is of two types: the happiness of taking and the happiness of giving. A child enjoys taking things. They want to possess. You take children to a toy shop and that’s it! They would want to bring the whole toy shop home. They would like to grab ev ...
  7. The causes of unhappiness

    There is one thing that everybody is seeking, and that is happiness. It is not that people don’t find, they do find happiness but it doesn’t last too long. It is momentary; for a couple of hours or one or two days. But the tendency of the spirit is to fin ...
  8. Be Happy Right Now

    Every living creature wants to be happy. And to be happy, people seek something: money, power or sex, but often even after getting it, they are not happy. Or happiness is very short-lived. A child thinks he will be happy once he goes to college. Once in c ...
  9. 14 Quotes on Happiness in Life

    Every living creature wants to be happy. To be happy, people seek something: money, power or sex. But even after getting it, one is not happy. A child thinks he will be happy when he goes to college. Once in college he thinks he will be happy when he star ...
  10. How to remain centered in an unjust world

    What’s your reaction to these events? A person starving at one end of the world, while another makes garlands of currency notes for a party  A beauty queen winning a competition on the front page of the newspaper while news of miners dying from a cave-in ...