Why does most of our happiness emanate from having more money ??

Answer 1

Well... Our happiness is not exactly directly related to having more money... but rather what will money enable us to do once we have it...

If someone has enough money, they can take a vacation from work without worrying about their financial status, and spend time with their family, enjoy nature, enjoy entertainment around the world, etc..

Spending time with your family without the hassle of worrying about money brings HAPPINESS! Enjoying nature and what the entertainment world has to offer... brings HAPPINESS...

Then.. money is certainly a BIG BIG player in insuring happiness... not as a direct player but as a very important indirect player..

If we have money, we will be able to easily be healthier than a poorer person... Having good health to be able to enjoy life brings us happiness!

We buy medicine with money... we pay vacations with money... we buy fancy and delicious food with money.... we embark into a new career by using money (school)... we can have time alone w/ nature or/and with our families if we have enough money....

No matter how badly people think that money can not make us happy, BUT almost about everything goes around having money... not around money, but around having it!

Besides all the goodies that come w/ the money... there is one big player and a very very direct one to happiness.... and that is LOVE!!

But lets face it... even by having money we can help ourselves and our love ones to spend time together to share our love....

How would we share and feel love to its fullest if we do not even have time to leave work...

Hope that helps!

CHRIS

Answer 2

You've got it all wrong. Money emanates from happiness.
Of course you could be somewhat happy with a belief that money is evil and then you would not get any and be happier that way. Or like my father who believed that paying taxes was evil and so had his business fail to make sure the rotten buggers didn't get any. Look around, there are thousands of examples like this. On the other side my friend's dad started up a sewer-cleaning business and gave at least 20% to his church as well as paying his taxes and became a millionaire and that was when a million could still make you rich.

Answer 3

Nowadays a different meaning is given to "happiness" than it was in previous decades. The reason I suspect that you see or feel that it emanates from having more money is because in what is now a very materialistic world where many people sadly try to "keep up with the Jones's " money is seen to give security,comfort and less worry in day to day life. To try to better your situation or lifes circumstances as the cards were dealt to you is not wrong but to try to get something better say than your neighbour or friend in a material way is to jump on a roller-coaster or conveyor belt where there will ALWAYS be SOMEONE who has more,something better,more expensive, faster etc,etc, than you!

Answer 4

One has to work hard to earn money, have tension to keep it safe and then while spending money there is a sense of loss and sadness. So how are you saying that our happiness emanate from money? It is a misconception.

Money is definitely needed and one has to work to acquire it, not with the assumption that happiness is going to emanate from money. When one is comfortable and can afford time for spiritual pursuits, eternal happiness may come within reach.

I know so many rich people who can afford the costliest of foods, but they can't digest it because of chronic diseases. Is it happiness?

Answer 5

Temporal happiness emanates from money as long as we perceive money as an end goal of everything. Permanent happiness (bliss) emanates when one stops running after money realizing that money is only the means to an end... never an end in itself!

For every spiritual seeker money carries no value at all. That does not mean money loses its value. The analogy is simple... every serious seeker of spirituality does not run after the fruits of karma and remains in eternal happiness (bliss) all the time.

Performing Nishakama karma is the real essence of life... it is performing karma the Nishakama karma way that a human being enjoys absolute bliss. The experience of bliss was never meant for the materialist. Those burdened with wanton desires are always hungry for materialistic riches in life. Such people enjoy happiness in short phases... that is never permanent!

The experience of bliss can be permanent when one reaches the stage of Nirvikalpa Samadhi... happiness is by nature ephemeral. If we have a good bank balance... we feel happy. The moment the balance reduces considerably... we feel worn out.

Money buys material comforts. Human beings drenched in thoughts of materialistic nature feel elated when bombarded with loads of money. We fail to realize that it is not physical possessions we carry to the next world... it is the Punya (positive merits) earned that carry forward to next life.

Every single possession in this would be left behind at the time of death... why run after happiness that is ephemeral by nature. More on the search for truth - http://www.godrealized.org/the_search_for_truth.html

Answer 6

I wouldn't say our happiness does so much as our ability to acquire more of the stuff we believe will make us happy. True happiness does emanate (I like your word!) from within, but at its most genuine it's not dependent on what you have or what you're able to get with more money. It's dependent on your choice.

Answer 7

Life is full of positives and negatives. We tend to ignore what we have and concentrate on what we do not have. This makes one unhappy.

Desire is the cause of suffering - Nisargdutta Maharaj in his book "I am that".

Since the attitude to concentrate on positives or negatives has nothing to do with Money / wealth, the happiness does not emanate from having more money.

Answer 8

Who says money makes man happy.
It is Maya. You means to say that if you have lots of land, fields, cars, gold, cash etc make you happy?

No money can ever make a man happy. Only it will make him have more worries. He has to bother about tax, thieves, robbers, sons/daughters /relatives quarrel, envy ,power struggles etc etc. Even proper sleep will not be possible.

You know the story of Alexander and a Saint. After conquering India Alexander came to know of a saint. He came to meet him and stood in front of him. The Saint was meditating. After repeated request for grants which Alexander offered to the Saint, the saint said if you can do something for me " please move a little so that the suns rays will fall on me. You are obstructing the rays."

That is it. You can never take money with death. Nor you brought it with you when you were born.

Answer 9

It doesn't. Some happiness comes from having more money, insofar as you have less anxiety and stress if you are able to afford to live without having to worry that you won't be able to pay your bills. However, the difference in happiness between having enough money to live reasonably comfortably and being able to live luxuriously is minimal.

Most of our happiness comes from the people around us and the activities we do on a day to day basis. If you have friends and family who you love and who are supportive of you and care about you, and you have a job that you enjoy doing, there is little that will be able to diminish your happiness.

Answer 10

You are absolutely write.

But.

Even though money is not every ting it is almost every thing and lots of things(need can be full filled with it) can be done if you have money.

Happiness is a state of mind it truly does not require money but need is also a state of mind and in most cases it can readily be full filled with the money.

PS: I would like to change it to "you are right", because you did say "most of our happiness" and you did not say "all of our happiness". So I have corrected it.

Answer 11

None of our happiness emanates from having more money. People THINK they will be happier when they have more money, but it simply isn't true.