By Dr. CA Mayur B. Nayak, Editor
Every year the 20th of March is celebrated as the “International Day of Happiness”. In July 2011, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 65/309
Happiness: Towards a Holistic Definition of Development inviting member countries to measure the happiness of their people and to use the data to help guide public policy.
While the UN makes things global through such means, the timeless scriptures of Bharat have pointed out Joy or Ananda to be the ultimate goal of humans. We spend our whole life in pursuit of happiness through every activity. A question which remains unanswered despite all progress is: Where is happiness located? How do we find it? Through career, money, wealth, fame, power, and positions we have tried to reach the elusive goal, only to find it fleeting. It is like ordering something that comes with a ‘very near expiry date’. Not only that, when one desire is satisfied, the other lures us with the powerful force of attraction. This loop is endless. We seek and we lose; we lose, and we seek again. In fact, the constant pursuit wears us out with stress, strife and discontentment. Thus, the eternal question remains: how can we be happy?
In today’s scenario, this question is more relevant for our fraternity than others. We find that practising CAs are facing various challenges on multiple fronts. The level of stress, risk of reputation and harassment by agencies have increased manyfold, whic
