Tarun Pradhaan : The Illusion of Happiness

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welcome to transmissions whenever we do

something which is favorable for the

survival of this body the mind produces

the reward there is experience this

pleasure whenever we do something which

is harmful for survival the my produces

punishment that is experienced this

suffering

whenever the situation's are favorable

for survival

same thing happens and whenever they are

not favorable for survival punishment

happens this reward

punishment is driving our actions and

therefore we say that the purpose of our

life is to get more and more rewards and

to avoid punishments to have less and

less amount of punishments or ever for

other words the goal of our lives become

pursuit of happiness because this reward

is perceived as a state of happiness now

it is very funny as well as strange that

the reward is produced in the mind and

happiness is also perceived in the mind

the mind changes the states as a

reaction to its own rewards and this

ensures survival survival of the body

this is the basic working of the ego or

the ego cells the egoic mind

whenever we repeat a particular action

more rewards are produced and that they

repeat something which is not good for

survival more punishment is produced and

that trains this organism that is

helpful for survival so what this

organism does is repeats that which

produced rewards in past and it avoids

that it's fearful of that which produced

punishment in the past this is how the

organism becomes bound it becomes the

slave of this rewarding punishment

process in the mind if there is

ignorance if there is ignorance about

what is my nature

what is my true nature that mind is now

identified with the body are whatever

the bodies do and so the mind assumes

that my purpose to stay alive is to get

more and more happiness to avoid

suffering to avoid the pain and then it

keeps repeating that which produced this

so-called happiness so we can see that

the mind is trapped in its own process

of producing rewards now adding

punishments which it itself is imposing

on this organism we are not punished by

something else it is our own mind that

produces this kind of punishment

suffering is mind produced it's created

by the mind thinks or others they do not

give us pain the pain is produced by the

body which is which some people think is

me that means you are yourself producing

the pain it is not coming from anything

external these mechanisms they exist to

ensure the survival and procreation of

this organism

these are not the purposes of your

existence the happiness with pursuit of

pleasure is not our purpose this can be

a purpose of this body mind but that is

not me that is something which I have

there is something which I am currently

experiencing this experience does not

last as we know very well it can end

anytime the survival is not really

geared for survival

this thing does not survive at all it

tries to survive and this desperate

trying has resulted in these kind of

processes of rewards and punishments to

keep this organism going for as long as

possible those who are deluded into

thinking that this organism is me this

body mind structure which is an illusory

structure in the mind is me they try to

achieve this thing called happiness

which is the state of the mind which is

an impermanent state of the mind by

trying to repeat that which produced the

happiness some who are less warned they

try to get it back by doing something

which is freshly pleasurable for the

body like eating or reproducing more

sleeping more or warfare violence is a

survival mechanism and it produces a

pleasure when you kill your enemy it

does not matter if that enemy is your

real enemy or somebody you were told is

your enemy by your leaders it produces

the same reward so some less you want

people they are engaged in violence they

get the reward from there some more are

engaged in egoic activities social

status the

that ensures survival if you are well

accepted in the society if people

respecting you if they lift your feet

that ensure the survival of this

organism and so people are engaged in

the egoic activities to get this kind of

social acceptance to rise above every

other organism in the society to win the

RAC race to become the winner right that

gives them this pleasure

that gives them this happens there are

some more more reward people who are

pursuing intellectual actions who are

engaged in the artistic expression or

scientific exploration writing singing

and so on these creative people they

derive their satisfaction our pleasure

by creating the mind produces the same

reward when it achieves something which

nobody has achieved it does something

which is beautiful an extraordinary the

same reward is produced and the mind

change is a state as a reaction to its

own reward into a state of happiness

when a creative person cannot create of

the nobody appreciates what he is

creating the bank produces punishment so

even though that is a highly advanced

activity of the mind it is still a

bondage it is still a mechanism it is

the slavery of the mind this activities

there are some more people they are even

more reward and they do not take so much

interest in the worldly activities in

the bodily activities in the social

activities or even in the artistic

activities they are after knowledge they

are after truth

and they are seeking answers to their

questions we call them the spiritual

people and the mind again produces a

reward when you know something because

knowing something which nobody else

knows is a kind of survival advantage

this has become refined for a spiritual

person when the kind of person is under

ignorance or a stone that look you do

you do not know many things

you are not awakened you are not

enlightened yet the mind produces a

punishment my produces a state of

suffering from that spiritual person

although everything is fine in his life

so there is a broad spectrum of human

activities that is merely a slavery of

this process in the mind which is

rewarding punishment some are doing it

through gross means some are doing it to

Relations finding more and more

relatives that is a survival advantage

obviously to be surrounded by people who

like you or who want to protect you who

want to feel you and the mind produces

similar reward some are doing it for

this society when you do something for

other people the acts of altruism the

mind produce is required because if I'm

helping you there will be time when you

will help me this is altruism

it is not exactly selfless as many

people would like to like to think it is

also a survival mechanism in the mind we

tend to support our own kind this

well-known that has given rise to many

more afflictions of the mind such as

racism communism sexism any kind of

these mental diseases they are coming

out of this

reward that is generated in the mind

when you help an individual of your own

kind of course some of you must be

thinking no I do not really support my

own kind I support all of the humanity

well the humans are your own kind and

then somebody will say no I support all

the organisms or animals and I support

the protection of environment also but

it is against survival because the

environment a good environment a healthy

ecosystem ensures the survival of the

humanity oh you are not doing it because

it is of no consequence to your survival

there is a consequence that is why there

is a favor for this activity for

preservation of environment or of the

animals and now you can see that the

human organism cannot do anything which

is not survival which is not survival

related even its happiness comes from

the activity which results in survival

of this organism this this organism is

bound by survival only and this illusion

of happiness is produced by this very

mild

you're not taking happiness from outside

anywhere this very mine is producing its

states of happiness or suffering it is

happening inside you the activities

simply reinforce the rewarding

punishment mechanisms in the mind some

people have done this kind of

experiments the kids simulate if you

stimulate the brain certain areas in the

brain it produces the same kind of

reward and Punishment it is very easy to

to produce the reward a punishment even

without messing with the brain

mechanisms in the mind it is possible

through the yogic means through some

meditations exercises you can generate

that reward and demand the pleasure pain

mechanisms of the mind is very easy to

have

the only thing is if you do it without

acting which results in better survival

for you then the mind will keep

producing it will keep producing the

happiness but this organism will

eventually die because the mechanism is

now being artificially simulated in the

mind

although anyway it gives us a good

insight about what this mechanism is the

mechanism of producing happiness are you

alive to feed this mechanism again and

again and again there is something very

interesting with this mechanism that if

you repeat one action for a long time it

stops producing the reward for example

you like a certain kind of food and you

are given that food once a week now the

mind is going to produce a reward and

you are leaving a very very happy life

because you get what you like the kind

of food you like survival + happiness it

is a win-win situation but let us do it

every day now you are fed the same food

every day now you are going to enjoy it

immensely for a month probably a week

after that you get tired of that food

but let us say we serve that food we

feed you it the same thing 3 times a day

now you're going to vomit it out it will

cause pain now the mind cannot handle it

why if the happiness came from the food

a certain kind what happened now wasn't

that food your source of happiness who

is same plus you're getting it more more

than you can ask for why is it producing

suffering now that should make it very

very clear that the pleasure is being

produced in the mind it is not coming

from the food mind perceives the food as

this beneficial for survival that's why

it was producing a reward now because

you are eating the same food the mind

how senses that it is not good for the

health of this organism we need to eat

variety of food get more nutrients this

is the mechanism in this body that it

needs some things and when it does not

get it it produces a punishment it

produces pain as a consequence so the

same thing which you thought was giving

you happiness starts giving you

suffering it is immense suffering this

is because after the threshold the

happiness production becomes less it

played use and then it drops terms

negative if you repeat the same activity

and that is why when you watch a movie

which is very entertaining it produces

all kinds of rewards and you enjoy you

become happy watching that movie but if

then you are forced to watch it every

day every hour then you can imagine what

it will produce the same movie exactly

the same piece of art that was produced

at a cost of millions and billions is

now generating extreme pain boring

painful experienced it's all in the mind

you can see it same thing happens with

the relations a new relation a new

friendship a new love love affair is

blissful is heavenly but only for a few

months few days sometimes as the mind

gets accustomed to the other person it

stops producing the reward now now the

relations fail now the relations turn

into a relation of hate because the mind

starts picking out the bad qualities in

the other person now cannot tolerate the

other person this is another mechanism

of the mind

and therefore the relations like

marriages the fail miserably it always

becomes a compromise in the end somehow

we tolerate the other person

the rest of your life we are being

governed by these activities of the mind

the mind is itself producing in itself

distracted this is the prison that we

have created for ourselves you can be

released from this prison very easily it

is a matter of seconds actually when you

realize that this is an illusion

happiness is a mechanical affair in the

mind you are freed from it now there is

suddenly no need to please the mind

there is certainly no need to do this

kind of slavery for the mind the necks

of people are going to ask how am I

going to survive because this is

survival mechanism don't worry you can

survive just fine but you have a miss

body mind all you need to do is do that

is necessary for survival stop doing

that which is totally unnecessary you

don't need to eat 1 kg of food every day

to survive little bit of food is enough

you don't need 50 relations to please

the mind please this mechanism in the

mind it please your master who is now

who has now become your master this -

become your master now stop pleasing it

stop doing the slavery for the mind you

don't need to kill a million people and

rule them to obey the commands of the

mind the tribal tendencies of the mind

all you need to do is kill the person

who is attacking you kill that animal

who is a threat to you you don't need to

kill the whole countries you don't need

to hate anybody if you are driven by

this desire to create works of art works

of science that involve the intellect

that can display the highest

intelligence in you please do it by all

means just don't worry about the

happiness or the pleasure that you get

from it fully realizing that the rewards

are the punishments that are going

the consequence of this activity I mind

created this activity of treating is

creating nothing except the work of art

it is not creating pleasure it is not

creating happiness and it is not

treating failure pain or suffering if

nobody accepts your piece of art if you

invent something if you discovered

something in the scientific field when

do it because it is useful not to get

the happiness or pleasure out of it or

do not suffer if it feels this is also

called a state of equanimity we are not

really asked of pleasure and pain

rewarding punishment or happiness or

suffering what we desire is the state of

equanimity when this mind is not bound

by its own mechanisms that is the state

of equanimity it is a state where you

are totally sentient you are happy all

the time and that happiness is not the

happiness which is generated out of this

rewarding punishment system in the mind

this kind of happiness is also called

the bliss bliss is absence of both

happiness and suffering bliss is absence

of both pleasure and pain it is absence

of both reward and punishment it is a

recognition that these activities are of

that of the mind not mine they don't

belong to me

I am only witness of these activities of

the mind I do not do them and I do not

get anything from these activities of

the mind the mind gets it the mind gets

the reward the mind gets the punishment

the mind gets the happiness the bank is

the suffering what is mind it's just an

illusion

all these things are illusory we get

nothing what we get we get to watch

these things that are happening it is

like a drama it's like a play we are

watching it

and then we watch it with full

equanimity although it will it will not

stop the activity of the mind it will

keep generating the rewarding punishment

in all these things it is very very

natural we need not stop it

but then we yeah but then we give rise

to a new layer in the mind the layer of

higher intelligence which is beyond

these mechanisms of the mind which is

higher than the mind itself this

intelligence is filled with of their

nests awareness of what I am and the

observer I am the witness and the

consciousness of these activities of the

mind I am NOT a slave of these

activities simply watching them is not

going to make me a slave of these

activities it is an illusion that I am

obeying the mind and not really obeying

the mind there is no need to stop the

mind also because well it will stop the

experience there's nothing wrong in

stopping the experience but remember

that this experience is impermanent it

will stop by itself enjoy the experience

point is there nothing wrong in the

experience what is wrong is that

ignorance stupidity fully identify

identifying with these mechanisms that

we are experiencing and doing all kinds

of idiotic things to please our master

mind the mind has become a master for

many people and they are suffering the

happiness and their suffering the

suffering awesome that kind of

mechanical happiness is not really the

happiness what you are looking for is

freedom from happiness and suffering and

all other states of the mind don't want

to be affected by all the states

changing states of the mind

you're looking for economy you're

looking for bliss the island that is a

consequence of not being a slave of the

mechanisms of the mind that involves

knowing my real nature I'm not the mind

I am NOT this body which is producing

all kinds of pleasures and pains this

realization will bring the quality

automatically the realization of true

your true nature will bring the Bliss

automatically if you remove all these

mechanisms of the mind all this activity

of the mind the duality of the mind what

remains

obviously equanimity the Bliss remains

that is me my major is bliss only my

nature is pure bliss my nature is not a

happiness seeking raft my nature is not

a pain avoiding animal my nature is

bliss when you are established in the

bliss you are established in your true

nature there is the sign that you are

enlightened now when you are running

after pleasure and pain reward

punishment happiness and suffering

whatever moronic actions that happen it

is sign of ignorance it is a sign of

darkness in your mind

realizing the illusion of the happiness

is freedom from ignorance thank you very

much for listening

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