Joy is not an achievement.

It should be the natural ambience of your life. Well, you must look back

and see the square one of your life. When you're a child, if your basic needs were fulfilled,

you were naturally joyful. So joy was a natural ambience within you and life was bubbly and exciting.

So it's not someplace to get.

It is an ambience that you should maintain.

And at the age of five or six, if you were that joyful,

by the time you're 30, you should have become ecstatic,

if really life enhanced itself. But burdened by our psychological

burdens, burdened by the memories that we gather, most human beings unfortunately lose this

sense of joy, not being joyful for something. You don't need a joke to laugh. You are bubbling with

laughter because you're joyful. So this doesn't mean you laugh all the time because laughter

which doesn't bubble out of you as exuberance of life. Laughter which doesn't come from the exuberance of your experience is a sick laughter.

It is of the mentally ill.

So it's very, very important.

We understand to be peaceful, to be joyful are not achievements.

It is the most fundamental ambience that is needed for a human being to evolve

to variety of possibilities that a human being holds. Namaskar.