Who says one must be happy?

Who says you have to be happy? , was Ragnar Lothbrok's question to his son Björn in an episode of the television saga Vikings. It is an interesting question because it sounds dissonant in a world that projects happiness as the supreme goal of modern life. In times past, honor or the fulfillment of duty had similar status to judge the fullness of life, without forgetting fidelity to the will of God or the gods. All these concepts of happiness have evolved with the values, principles and paradigms prevailing in different times, driven by systems of thought and beliefs that gave them meaning.

There is no doubt that POINTFULNESS also pursues Happiness, but confuses it with the Plenitude of the consciousness of Being, that is, outside the anecdotal scope of human life. The Singular Life that is achieved by getting rid of all the Illusions manufactured by the mind allows us to reach the point of Plenitude in the vital experience, and it does so by removing the ballast and not adding requirements and conditions. Each step towards the Singularity makes us lighter and more focused in our consciousness of Being, returning to that unique moment when our intelligence recognizes the presence of that fundamental consciousness. In that sense, happiness naturally achieves the universality in the human race that others try to impose through rules and recipes from various sources.

None of the above, however, takes away from the biological reality of the human being or that of his mind. We are made to know pleasure and pain in the body, satisfaction and suffering in the mind, constantly exposed by our interactions with the environment and the other beings that surround us or leave us alone. This life, sometimes uncontrollable and inexplicable, obeys the same rules of nature that prevail for an infinite number of living entities, from the microscopic to the gigantic, but without the consciousness of collaborating in the Everything that expresses Being. Only human beings conscious can recognize their own life as unique, indispensable and irreplaceable in the Whole. In the same way as the nature in which we live, we have adapted to live, be born, procreate and die. The fact that we are here and now indicates that we have done well, although it probably won't be forever. All the evolution that our species has experienced over millions of years has no particular purpose, that is, it is no more significant than an ant, an elephant or a dolphin, however, the evolution of our brain allows us to recognize consciousness. of Being, the only thing that justifies there being something instead of nothing.

Everything we think and do day to day does not have the relevance or significance that we want to give it, what will happen after our death is not more important than what happened before our birth. But, for a brief moment on the scale of a universe, we can experience Being with full consciousness and feel how life flows. Biological existence continues and develops as it should develop although it represents only the surface, the prop of something profound and extremely light at the same time. Many of those who achieved the state of spiritual enlightenment comment on their surprise that it was something so simple, and yet so difficult to achieve from the other side. It is something that I would perhaps describe as that day when the sun and the blue sky return after the storm and that makes us wonder how there can be so much peace after so much chaos. The truth is that the sun and the blue sky never left, they were only hidden by the clouds. Our connection with the consciousness of Being is permanent, but it is also hidden behind Illusions and the work of the mind, behind the life we ​​live at ground level and not above the clouds.