Happiness is within our thought only.

Happiness is within our thought only.

A man search for happiness without knowing that the thing is infact within him only. Our elderly people by way of telling short stories removed our ignorance.
Here is a short story, which tells about the foolishness of a village man.

A man from a small village once went to the next town to buy five donkeys. Since his village was quite remote, he decided to ride back on the sturdiest of donkeys, letting the others follow along. When he neared his home, and to make sure whether all the donkeys were arrived with him, he looked back and counted and discovered that there were only four donkeys. He felt very sad for not paying closer attention during the ride. He arrived his home in a dejected and sorrow mood.

As he was getting of donkey, he told his wife, who had come out to invite him, “ I feel very sad, I bought five donkeys, but somehow I lost one on the way.” The wife looked at him and told him with a smiling face, “ there are not five donkeys, there are six!” including yourself. The husband then only realized that he had forgotten to count the donkey on which he was riding! Similarly, a thing may be within you, but if you do not recognize it, you effectively disown it and go about searching for that very thing. Such a search is foolishness, to be solved only by knowing that the thing is, in fact with you all the time.

“A pointless saying is a fool’s doing.”