Question:
I go to your website daily to, among other things, read the daily inspiration. Today’s inspiration is about reconnecting with your bliss. I understand the meaning of the word but unable to relate it to my own life. I love my family, children and grandchildren and live my life with a grateful heart and thank God for all my blessings. Is that what my bliss is?
Answer:
Reconnecting to your bliss is consciousness reverberating in its own self-recognition. It is called bliss because it the primal thrill of the cosmos as it knows itself. But it is not the same as what we typically call happiness or pleasure. It is a presence of existence that is beyond emotion or aspiration. It expresses itself in our daily life as love, compassion, creativity, gratitude and joy. So the love you feel for your family and the thankfulness you feel are indicators that this inner bliss is manifesting in your life. What you can choose to do however is to strengthen that connection and allow that bliss to transform every aspect of your life until everyone is regarded with the same love and compassion as you feel toward your family.
Love,
Deepak
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Time Magazine heralded Deepak Chopra as one of the 100 heroes and icons of the century, and credited him as "the poet-prophet of alternative medicine." Entertainment Weekly described Deepak Chopra as "Hollywood's man of the moment, one of publishing's best-selling and most prolific self-help authors." He is the author of more than 50 books and more than 100 audio, video and CD-Rom titles. He has been published on every continent and in dozens of languages. Fifteen of his books have landed on the New York Times Best-seller list. Toastmaster International recognized him as one of the top five outstanding speakers in the world. Through his over two decades of work since leaving his medical practice, Deepak continues to revolutionize common wisdom about the crucial connection between body, mind, spirit, and healing. His mission of "bridging the technological miracles of the west with the wisdom of the east" remains his thrust and provides the basis for his recognition as one of India's historically greatest ambassadors to the west. Chopra has been a keynote speaker at several academic institutions including Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Divinity School, Kellogg School of Management, Stanford Business School and Wharton.His latest book is
"Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul."
Bliss is the ultimate state of oneness. When you understand our connection to the brahman! To understand the meaning of the word Bliss. We have to understand the words connected with it. It comes form the word Sat-chit-anand (Satchidananda). Its all about travelling from truth to consciousness to bliss. Sat-chit-anand. Sat means truth, chit means consciousness, anand means bliss, which is the ultimate state of oneself.
Dear Deepak ji/Raution!
nicely explained!
Blis may be defined as -"Freedom from the prison of individualized consciousness by attaining cosmic consciousness and there by realizing true nature of self."
Free on line defines ataraxia"
"a state of tranquility free from anxiety and emotional disturbance.