Theory of Relativity

I have to come to believe in theory of relativity more now than ever before. Buddha said that the prime cause of all misery was desire, I was not completely satisfied to probed further. What is Desire? The term misery itself is a comparative notion. You feel miserable because you perceive other people to be happier than you are. I find that a lot of people around me are frustrated in thier lives not because they are dont have what it takes to lead a happy life but because some people , in their opinion have received more.

I guess every person compares what he desires/thinks he deserves to what actually gets . Lets say a person's Worthiness Quotient is Receivable/Desire . A man is in equanimity if both are equal and ratio equals one, however if desire is more than what he gets, his quotient is less than one and he feels miserable, unworthy. To take this further, lets say for a person A, the WQ is say WQ(A) and for another person B, the WQ is WQ(B). So Happiness Quotient for A can be defined as WQ(A)/WQ(B) , hence the happiness a person feels depends on how high his individual quotient is and also how low other's quotient is, according to his perception.

e.g. A person A is a very happy go lucky kinda fellow who has a high WQ of say 3 i.e. he gets three times more in life than what he desires. But thats not all. He compares himself with other people say some person B who is quite miserable in life. Now B has a WQ of 0.5 i.e. he gets only half of what he desires in life. Now if we see the HQ of A 3/0.5 which becomes 6! So just because B feels unworthy, A's happiness doubles !!! However if A had compared himself with a happier guy say C whose WQ was 6 then HQ for A would have been 3/6 i.e. 0.5!! So just by comparing oneself by a happier person C, A who was otherwise misery free at 3 became 0.5 and emotionally unstable.

Hence to cut the matter short, the key to happiness is to desire less or if you do desire then make sure you get more than what you desire. And once you have taken care of that compare yourself with people around you hungry naked homeless who get less than what a human life deserves, so that will give you a high Happiness Quotient. Better still dont compare at all, so your HQ will be MQ/0 which will give infinite happiness , just look at your own life and be happy; and better still is dont have any desire which will give HQ as infinite/infinite which is undefined means boundless joy, simply out of the world.

to be contd....