You want to be happy? 

To get happy, you’re probably using the methodologies that you learned from your family and in school. 

Let me ask you – the people who taught you those methodologies, were they happy?

Is that the kind of happy you want to be?

I clearly remember wondering about this when I was growing up. I would see my family, my friends and their families – they had happy moments.  They would laugh, even dance around the room, even giggle, and then they would go back to “normal”.

When I got on my own, I tried doing what they taught, and found I got what they got. Intermittent happiness. I wanted more.

It took me decades to figure out that the problem wasn’t me. What I needed was better teachers.

I went looking. It took a while to find my way to someone who was actually happy – beyond happy, who lived in bliss. Best of all, he shared the bliss. He was contagious.

This is described in the sutras, that you need a teacher who shares their bliss. Not by doing anything, but by being so deeply centered in their own Beingness that they ooze bliss germs. A sutra explains this:

In all places and times, the yogi experiences the bliss of the Self, which is transmitted to all who come in contact with him. 

Lokaananda.h samaadhi-sukham. — Shiva Sutras 1.18

In all places and times, the yogi experiences the bliss of the Self, which is transmitted to all who come in contact with him. 

My Baba was like this. Nityananda was like this. People would go and sit with him, in silence, for hours. And get more and more bliss-filled the longer they stayed…