GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

All of us have tasted the freedom and happiness that self-forgetfulness brings. In watching a good Game of tennis or becoming engrossed in a novel.

The satisfaction comes not so much from what we are watching or reading as from the act of absorption itself for that brief span, our burden of personal thoughts are forgotten; then we find relief, for what lies beneath that burden is the still, clear state of awareness we call joy.

The scientist or the artist absorbed in creative work is happy because she has forgotten herself in what she is doing. But nowhere will you find personalities so joyous,so unabashedly light hearted, as those who have lost themselves in love for all. That is the joy we glimpse in Saint Francis, or Mira Bai, or Mahatma Gandhi. To look at the lives of men and women like these is to see what joy means.

Parvamani.