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This is the 3rd part in my series, The Secret to Never Ending Happiness. If you are here for the first time, please make sure to check out the part 1 and part 2 and then come back here. Let’s continue the discussion as promised, let’s talk about the really small pleasures that you experience in life. For some time, let’s forget the placebo effect and focus on the state of mind. Let’s consider a situation where you are eating your favourite chocolate. It is a delightful experience, you are enjoying the chocolate. Is this a happiness? Yes. Would you say this kind of happiness has nothing to do with the state of mind? The type of happiness we talked about earlier was naturally very easy to relate with the state of mind, but this one is a bit difficult. You would say who thinks so much while eating a chocolate. We eat it, we enjoy it, and we forget about it. And yes, you are absolutely correct. But within the next few minutes, I will prove it to you that it is the state of mind and nothing else in this situation as well that makes you feel happy. ...

This is the 2nd part in my series, The Secret to Never Ending Happiness. If you are here for the first time, please make sure to check out the part 1 and then come back here. At the end of part 1, we discussed about one kind of happiness, the happiness of bouncing back from all odds and we compared it to the placebo effect. We took the analogy of a depression patient in case of placebo effect and a cricketer in case of the happiness of bouncing back. Where the cricketer corresponds to the patient, the depression corresponds to lack of form. Medication given in placebo effect corresponds to the mental therapy that the cricketer took. And we concluded that overall as a process, this was quite similar to placebo effect. Overall it was the same thing, it is all about conditioning your mind to believe that the situation you are in is curable. Once you are able to successfully condition your mind, irrespective of the method you take to condition your mind, which in case of placebo was a fake medicine, and in case of cricket was therapy and time away, happiness is guaranteed. ...

Let me directly break this to you. The secret to never ending happiness can be understood by the concept of the placebo effect. Yes! You read it right. I can already hear you scream at your screen that what the hell am I talking about! How can happiness be a placebo effect. Yes, I know you have experienced happiness for real, it is not fake like the placebo effect. Just hear me out once. It is not as direct as you think ...

Let’s continue the story from where we had left off, if you have missed the first, second and third part, I would recommend you to first check those out and then come back here to read the part 4: Teacher: Good morning students! Students: Good morning teacher! Teacher: Last time, Rajat had asked about rituals, let’s continue that discussion. Rajat: Yes! I am fed up of my parents telling me to perform so many religious rituals. ...

Let’s continue the story from where we had left off, if you have missed the first and second part, I would recommend you to first check those out and then come back here to read the part 3: Teacher: Good morning students! Students: Good morning teacher! Teacher: Let’s begin with where we had ended in the last lecture. Jimit had asked us about the fake babas and gurus. Jimit: Yes, I am of the opinion that paap, punya, heaven and hell are misused by these babas to fool innocent people. I am strongly against that. We’ve seen so many cases where these babas have almost a cult like following and support from the people. They have connections with big politicians, they commit crimes and never get caught. How would you defend that? You have to agree that the root cause for all of this is religion. ...

Let’s continue the story from where we had left off, if you have missed the part-1, I would recommend you to first check that out and then come back here to read the part 2: Teacher: Good morning students! Students: Good morning teacher! Teacher: I hope everyone remembers that we had started a debate in the last lecture, as far as I recall, Rohan had asked a question in the end which wasn’t answered because the bell rang. Can you ask the question again Rohan? ...

Whether you are on the atheist side or the theist side, you are wrong! The age old debate of science vs religion is still hot, and we all have faced it some day or another, here is my take on it in a dialogue form as a conversation between the students and teacher of a classroom: Teacher: Good morning students! Students: Good morning teacher! Teacher: Let’s start the day with a prayer. Come on everyone! Join your hands, close your eyes and start repeating after me! ...