Apart from this, it would add to our happiness if we create opportunities for the same. We can plan something different from our routine for weekends. Visiting temples, watching movies, meeting friends or relatives, etc. can be planned according to our tastes and requirements. Some women might grumble that for their husband, friends mean more than anything else and that they never take their wife to movies. Some might complain that their husband would never stay at home even on holidays and that they always go out to meet friends. Many people consider family as a burden because of their wrong attitude. And, they try to seek remedy with the help of astrologers or ‘self-proclaimed’ god men. Happiness lies not only in doing things that we enjoy doing but also in doing things that we don’t like doing but which our life-partner or other members of our family expect us do. Sharing joy with others, doing things for the sake of others will give us unadulterated happiness while doing things for our own sake will bring only joy mixed with selfishness.

The practice of dining together with our family members will yield very good results and strengthen the bond. The members can share the events of the day and their reactions. The conversation can touch neutral topics like politics, cinema, etc. Let us not lose all these happiness by returning late at night. And, remembering the birthday of our life-partner and giving him/her a small gift will add to his/her confidence in us. Some might feel that it will look very artificial and cinematic. There’s nothing like that in celebrating birthdays. We should feel happy on this day as birthdays render us happy by recalling the birth of our dear ones. On festival days like Diwali, it would bring greater joy if we spend the day as per the wish of our family members. Some people spend the festival days sitting before the television watching all the programs. This is not going to do any good.

No doubt, our personal happiness is very important. But, at the same time, we should never do things that would ruin other people’s happiness. If we take care to follow this policy wholeheartedly, we can boast of following the spiritual path in the worldly life. There’s no greater joy than this.