We know how to be joyful but we don't know how to sustain it. In other words, when external situations are conducive we tend to become a little joyful.
The external situations will happen the way we think they should only if the scope and play of our life are very limited.
Meditation is a ways of manufacturing what we call as ojas. In meditation, we are using energy to manufacture something much subtler than the physical body.
Most of the time people get caught up in the problems that exist at that moment, and try to fix them only for short-term benefits. We should not ignore problems;
when we talk about bringing awareness to you disease, when we talk about
accepting what is there, it does not mean you are defeated at the hands of the disease. The moment you bring awareness to any part of your body, in terms of
energy, it will immediately become active and many things starts happening.
No matter how much people preach “don’t get angry,” when certain situations arise we do get angry. Emotional states, such as anger, hate, lust, compassion or love — from the lowest to the highest — are different expressions of the same energy.
