Main Cause of unhappiness– false beliefs and misconceptions

[shivraj]

Many false beliefs and misconceptions are deeply
ingrained in your minds. It is due to these beliefs that
troublesome thoughts keep recurring in your mind.
In a certain community the date 13 is considered as very
unlucky, hence all people in that community believe the
date 13 to be ill-fated and do everything fearfully on that
date. But just come to think of it, is it true that the date
13 is ominous or is it only one of our erroneous beliefs?

Everything in our life is related to beliefs and the
way you have been brought up to see those beliefs. Your
fears, your sorrows, your joys, your successes, your
failures, your life, your death... everything is based on
your beliefs. Beliefs are something that you believe in,
but are actually not true. Some beliefs have been devised
by people to suit their conveniences, but you laugh and
cry according to them. In fact, you lead your entire life
according to them. We need to come out of these
beliefs.

Why are we not getting happiness? We have to
find the actual reason for this. Our happiness lies within
ourselves. We don’t need to go to a theatre or an
amusement park for that. We don’t need to wait for any
promotion or for a party. We just need to search for it.
In spite of having happiness within ourselves, we are not
feeling it. The reason is we have become withdrawn and
closed. If we open up, only then will that happiness
manifest. Therefore, we need to find out the cause
behind mankind becoming withdrawn and closed.