How to Be Joyful

Everybody wants to be joyful. I don’t think I have ever met anyone who has ever said, “Swamiji, I want to be miserable. I want to suffer. I want to be unhappy.” Even someone who is performing nefarious activities believe that by doing so they will get some kind of joy out of it. It’s misguided thinking, but everyone wants to be joyful. This is a fact. Bhakti Yoga teaches the genuine, profound way of joy and love. If you learn of it, then bit by bit, step by step, you begin to realise, “My goodness, we are all equal, we all have the same potential - we just have to choose whether we want to learn about this and practice it.” It’s simple.