Why do we do, what we do?

 

Why do we do, what we do? To become happy - sukhi. Is it not? That’s the prime most goal of every living being. There is no living being on earth that does not strive to achieve happiness.

 

In general if we attempt to define happiness it could mean combination of many things. Happiness could mean – to be able to safeguard self-esteem for self and family by becoming self-sufficient; to be able to make parents happy; to be able find good life partner; to be able to raise, feed and maintain family; to be able to get a good food on the table for self and all dependents; and above all, to be able to earn good name for family and lineage. In fact earning good name is the tip of happiness as the good name is what we leave behind at the end of life.

 

After doing all hard work if one is not able to achieve these goals, then something is missing. And that is punya. All material earnings including the ability to earn material wealth are the result of punya, merit. Wise say that to achieve all above goals one should focus on earning punya.

 

To achieve punya, wise recommend to have just one goal. This one goal can help to earn punya which in turn helps to achieve all of the above goals. And that goal is, to make God happy by serving Him.

Service is very important in life. Without service we cannot earn anything in life. That’s the most common known true fact of life. One has to dedicate body and mind, without any complaint, to an organization who gives food or essentially salary to purchase food.

If this is the case with organization that gives remuneration to keep up the body and bodily relations, what about persons who gave birth to this body itself or the higher power who has provided us all necessary things for living such as air, water, vegetables, material for shelter, rain, breeze, light? How can we forget to serve that higher power which is introduced to us through our parents.

The beautiful fact is that to serve that higher power, called God, one does not have to do any extra effort. Just remembrance, while performing all mundane tasks, is enough to make him happy. What an easy task?

Saints have given a very simple solution to remember God. Choose any one from his thousands of holy names, be it Shrirama, be it Shrikrishna, be it Sai and go on chanting it incessantly while performing all tasks.

 

Name of God is a very powerful resource available to mankind. It helps to remove all faults in one’s own personality, it helps to get a speed in progress and above all it helps to earn the base of all happiness, i.e. punya – merit.