Satchitananda

Who doesn't want to be Happy?
We all seek Happiness
We search for it from birth to death
  But the true treasure of Bliss we miss

Success is Happiness, we were taught
And in this myth, we were caught

We won and we lost, we succeeded, and we failed
But Happiness we forgot

Happiness is like a Shadow, you see
The more you chase it, the further it goes away
But if you stay still to enjoy it
You will see that with you, it will stay
Happiness is not a product or a place
  Nor a person that can give you Bliss
  Happiness is a state of being, my friend
  When will you realize this?

From the time we are born, we seek Happiness
Just as we run away from pain
We start seeking pleasure and then we seek Peace
We seek Happiness again and again

Ananda is that state of Joy
It is true Bliss without a tear
We transcend the suffering of ego, body, and mind
  And we live without worry and fear

But this state of Ananda, this state of Joy
  Doesn't come to us for free
Until we become conscious of the Truth
  In this state we cannot be
It starts with the Realization of the Truth
Overcoming the myth in life
  Renouncing all superstitions and rituals
  That create misery and strife

When we go in quest, 'What is the Truth?'
It is then that we get to find
All that we were taught when we were a child
  Was a lie, but we were just blind

When we are Enlightened with the Truth
  It is then we get to know
We are not this body, we are not this mind 
This world is just a show

We realize that we are the Divine Soul
  That causes us to live until death
The day we leave this physical body
  There is death, there is no breath

But we are that, the Divine Soul
To realize this is our goal
Then, we will experience true Ananda,
  In Peace and Joy, we will roll

Why is it we don't realize the Truth?
  Why the Truth we don't find?
  Because we live as prisoners
Of the ego, body and mind

Our quest leads us to the Law of Karma 
Our actions make our desires prevail 
Then we realize there is no heaven and hell 
It is all but a fairy tale

Today science agrees we are not the body that appears
  Before this there was no synergy
It had warred with spirituality on almost all counts
But today both agree we are energy

When we become conscious of this Truth 
Then the myth we leave behind
It is then that we open our spiritual eyes 
We can see, we are no more blind

But soon the mind that's a monkey
  Will jump from thought to thought
  The Truth that we had realized
  Will soon be forgot

The challenge is to stay conscious
And to observe as a witness
Only then the Truth that we have realized
  Will give us Happiness

The Truth is the Truth, no one can deny
  But we must be conscious of it
Otherwise though we have the knowledge
  We will lose sight of it

Consciousness is not an easy thing
It's unknown to the world
Only a few are blessed to experience 
What the wise sages had told

SatChitAnanda, they used to say
  Consciousness, Truth, Bliss
But what this state actually was
  Nobody could understand this

Consciousness of the Truth is Bliss
  But how this Joy, can one find?
  Unless one realizes the Truth
They remain prisoners of the mind

Ananda is that state of Bliss
It is a state of Joy that's rare
It is eternal Peace and everlasting Bliss
  But you must pay the fare

You must be conscious of the Truth
If you want everlasting Peace
Then the triple suffering that makes you cry
  Will, once and for all, cease

Nothing will affect you in this world
  As you surrender and you accept
  The Divine Leela of the Lord
You will realize you passed the test

Nothing is real, it is just like a dream
In the end, we all must go
But if we live conscious of the Truth
  We will truly enjoy the show

Those who don't know, they fret and fume
  They look at the sky and they cry
They try to make sense from what happens
  They pray and ask God, ‘Why?’

But those who live conscious of the Truth
  They live a life of Bliss
They have learnt to live in the moment
  Forever in Happiness

SatChitAnanda is a seamless Joy
  Being conscious living in Peace
  Nothing that happens in the world
  Can make our Bliss cease

For deep within we enjoy Peace
  And conscious of the Truth we live 
We know it’s a dream, it’s not real
We love, we laugh and we give

But is it easy to achieve this state... 
This state of eternal Bliss?
Oh, no! As long as we have the mind
  It’s difficult to achieve this

As long as the monkey mind in us
  Creates all the junk
There can be no Ananda
Till the Monkey becomes a Monk

Then, we can live with Consciousness
  With Peace, with Joy, with Bliss
Nothing that happens in this mortal world
  Will steal our Happiness

SatChitAnanda is eternal Bliss
It is our ultimate goal
It comes when we transcend ego, body, mind
  And we live as the Divine Soul