Namaste Anilbro! Your name is the same as my b.i.l and so the feeling of connection was felt. Please let me share 

extracts from a wonderful book "Where There Is Light" - Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.

If you have given up hope of ever being happy, cheer up. Never lose hope. Your soul, being a reflection of the ever joyous 

Spirit, is, in essence, happiness itself. If it is happiness you want, have it! There is nothing that can stop you. 

Happiness depends to some extent upon external conditions, but chiefly upon mental attitudes. Essentially, conditions 

are neither good nor bad, they are always neutral, seeming to be either depressing or encouraging because of the sad 

or bright attitude of the mind of the individual concerned with them. Change your thoughts if you wish to change your 

circumstances. Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to 

change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works 

at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. 

Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness. If you do not choose to be 

happy no one can make you happy. Do not blame God for that! And if you choose to be happy, no one can make you 

unhappy. If He had not given us freedom to use our own will, we could blame Him when we are unhappy, but He did 

give us that freedom. It is we who make of life what it is. The root of sorrow lies in the dearth of heroism and courage 

in the character of the average man. When the heroic element is lacking in the mental makeup of a person, his mind 

becomes susceptible to the threat of all passing sorrows. Persons of strong character are usually the happiest. 

They do not blame others for troubles that can usually be traced to their own actions and lack of understanding. 

They know that no one has any power to add to their happiness or detract from it unless they themselves are so 

weak that they allow the adverse thoughts and wicked actions of others to affect them. Your highest happiness lies 

in your being ever ready in desiring to learn, and to behave properly. The more you improve yourself, the more you will 

elevate others around you. The self-improving man is the increasingly happy man. The happier you become, the 

happier will be the people around you. Remember that when you are unhappy it is generally because you do not 

visualize strongly enough the great things that you definitely want to accomplish in life, nor do you emply steadfastly 

enough your will power, your creative ability, and your patience until your dreams are materialized. Happiness lies in 

making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others. Giving happiness to others is tremendously 

important to our own happiness, and a most satisfying experience. Some people think only of their own family: 

"Us four and no more." Others think only of self: "How am I going to be happy?" But these are the very persons who 

do not become happy! To live for self is the source of all misery. In being of spiritual, mental and material service to 

others, you will find your own needs fulfilled. As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, 

your own cup of happiness will be full. Real happiness can stand the challenge of all outer experiences. When you can 

bear the crucifixions of others' wrongs against you and still return love and forgiveness; and when you can keep that 

divine inner peace intact despite all painful thrusts of outer circumstance, then you shall know this happiness. 

The more you depend upon conditions outside yourself for happiness, the less happiness you will experience. 

Without being happy you will not even be able to find Him...The happier you are, the greater will be your attunement 

with Him. Those who know Him are always happy, because God is joy itself.

Affirmations : Beginning with the early dawn, I will radiate my cheer to everyone I meet today. I will be the mental 

sunshine for all who cross my path this day. I form new habits of thinking by seeing the good everywhere, and by 

beholding all things as the perfect idea of God made manifest. I will make up my mind to be happy within myself 

right now, where I am today.

May God bless you with tears of happiness!