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Wednesday 25 January 2012

"If you are happy with a reason, that reason may be taken away from you, and you'll lose your joy. If you are happy without reason, nobody can take your happiness away." HH Dalai Lama

Guru's happiness mantra: Rejoice without a reason

TNN | Jan 25, 2012, 04.10AM IST


NEW DELHI: In 120 minutes of seasoned and peppy analytical thought, new-age guru Dr Deepak Chopra left the 400-odd people gathered at the Chinmaya Mission auditorium happier than they were when they arrived to hear him. Many of them had waited more than three hours for a vantage seat.

"Be happy without reason," said Dr Chopra, quoting the Dalai Lama. "If you are happy with a reason, that reason may be taken away from you, and you'll lose your joy. If you are happy without reason, nobody can take your happiness away." It would be no exaggeration to say that Chopra, best-selling author, senior scientist with Gallup Organisation, and notably described by Time magazine as "poet-prophet of alternative medicine", is to wellness what Einstein was to physics: a path breaker.

Dr Chopra was declaiming at the Mission auditorium during the live streaming of Speaking Tree, the world's first online spiritual networking website with over 70,000 seekers and 70 spiritual masters. He spoke to Gallup before his Chinmaya Mission address about the happiness quotient of India. "Any nation scoring 70% in terms of its people's happiness is thriving. Countries between 40% to 70% are struggling. Those less than 40% are suffering."

Then he gave India's score: "It's 17%... But Denmark, on the other hand, has 79% of its people happy."

Dr Chopra said absence of illness is a pre-requisite for happiness. "We need to understand the mechanism of illness, its origin... We need to find out who we are, and not confuse self with body. Body is activity in consciousness, whereas mind (UCLA's Daniel Seagull's definition) is an embodied rational process that regulates the flow of energy and information."

He said healing has to be holistic. For example, a headache caused by sinusitis cannot be treated with painkillers. The mind has to "intend" with "attention" to heal the body.

Intentions are triggers for transformation in the body, he explained.

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