Before we conider what 'sorrow' is let us understand what happiness is:
Happiness is a plessurable sensation. To achieve it let us look how it is defined :
Happiness is a plessurable sensation. To achieve it let us look how it is defined :
"You have the idea that only certain people hold the key to the Kingdom of Happiness. No one holds it. No one has the authority to hold that key. That key is your own self, and in the development and the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity.
Till man is made incorruptible by himself, he will know no happiness, he will be held in the bondage of friendship and the fear of loneliness. The weariness of strife will still hold him. Men must be created who are great in the serenity of harmony. Such men must be born in you. Such men must give rise to new transformations, must become a flame thatto burn away the dross danger to all unessential, childish things."
-J.Kishnamurthy
God or enlightenment is the ultimate pleasure, uninterrupted happiness. No such thing exists. Your wanting something that does not exist is the root of your problems. Transformation, moksha, liberation, and all that stuff, are just variations of the same theme: permanent happiness. The body can't take uninterrupted pleasure for long; it would be destroyed. Wanting to impose a fictitious permanent state of happiness on the body is a serious neurological problem.-U.G. Krishna Murthy
Now, After having an idea of Happiness, let see what Sorrow is:
My son dies; and there is immense sorrow, shock, and I discover that I'm really a lonely human being. I cannot face it, I cannot tolerate it, so I escape from it. And there are many escapes-religious, mundane or philosophical. But I find there is no way of escaping from the ache, the pain of lonliness, the grief, the shock, but remain completely with the event, with this thing called suffering. It is like holding exquisitely handcrafted precious jewel. In the same way, if we could, without movement of thought or escape, hold our sorrow, then that very action of not moving away from it that fact brings out a total release from that which has caused pain.
Till man is made incorruptible by himself, he will know no happiness, he will be held in the bondage of friendship and the fear of loneliness. The weariness of strife will still hold him. Men must be created who are great in the serenity of harmony. Such men must be born in you. Such men must give rise to new transformations, must become a flame thatto burn away the dross danger to all unessential, childish things."
-J.Kishnamurthy
God or enlightenment is the ultimate pleasure, uninterrupted happiness. No such thing exists. Your wanting something that does not exist is the root of your problems. Transformation, moksha, liberation, and all that stuff, are just variations of the same theme: permanent happiness. The body can't take uninterrupted pleasure for long; it would be destroyed. Wanting to impose a fictitious permanent state of happiness on the body is a serious neurological problem.-U.G. Krishna Murthy
Now, After having an idea of Happiness, let see what Sorrow is:
My son dies; and there is immense sorrow, shock, and I discover that I'm really a lonely human being. I cannot face it, I cannot tolerate it, so I escape from it. And there are many escapes-religious, mundane or philosophical. But I find there is no way of escaping from the ache, the pain of lonliness, the grief, the shock, but remain completely with the event, with this thing called suffering. It is like holding exquisitely handcrafted precious jewel. In the same way, if we could, without movement of thought or escape, hold our sorrow, then that very action of not moving away from it that fact brings out a total release from that which has caused pain.
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