Savitri
A Legend and a Symbol

Chapter 82Happiness and Joy

Book 3. Part Three: Elements of Yoga

CHEERFULNESS Cheerfulness: a joyous smile of Nature.

* Cheerful endeavour: the joy that one finds in the effort towards the Divine.

* Mental cheerfulness: it knows how to take delight in everything.

* Keep a cheerful mind and a peaceful heart. Let nothing disturb your equanimity and make every day the necessary progress to advance with me steadily towards the goal.

29 October 1934

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HAPPINESS Happy heart: smiling, peaceful, wide open, without a shadow.

* You must never forget that you are much more helpful when you are quietly happy than when you become dramatic.

5 October 1932

* Be happy, my child, it is the surest way of progress.

12 April 1934

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