When we start our life, we have a glass full of life.
When we start our life, we have a glass full of life. Slowly, the glass becomes empty and we fill our life-glass with things. Our glass becomes full of money, treasures, properties but what we forget to realize is that nothing of this is ours. And then, one day, we have to go.
Nothing Is Mine
In my book, The AiR Philosophy of Life, I have asked a simple question. What did we bring to earth when we arrived on this planet? What will we take with us when we go? We don’t realize that this world is just a show. We bring nothing and we take nothing. Still, we spend our entire life trying to collect things that don’t matter. We end up losing our life and do not discover what truly matters.
Many of us become prisoners of pleasures and possessions. We spend our life collecting things that will ultimately, be left behind. We spend our entire life making money and we have no time to spend that money. But we are so lost without a proper Philosophy of Life that we end up wasting our life creating wealth. Then, we lose our health. We forget to enjoy life, to live life. And then, we try to spend our wealth to regain our health. Before we realize it, our life is over.
Look at the young men and women building India’s technology companies: in a 2025 study, 84% of IT employees screened had fatty liver disease and 71% were obese, from long hours at the desk, stress, poor sleep and shift work.
Life Will Not Go On Forever
Life has a limited span. Every ‘body’ will die, one day. But the AiR Philosophy teaches us that we are not the body that will die. No doubt, this journey will come to an end. But death is just a bend that we have to learn to transcend.
No ‘body’ can live forever. The body will age and experience decay and disease. And when it does, we pay for it ourselves.
Indian households carry nearly half of the country’s health spending out of their own pockets, while only about 9% of it goes towards prevention.
I Am Not The Body That Suffers Pain
The AiR Philosophy reveals to us that the body experiences pain. But we don’t have to suffer this pain. If only we realize that we have a body but we are not the body, we will be able to deal with all the aches and pains of the body without suffering them. For this, we must question, ‘Who am I? Am I this body that will die?’
Money Is Important But It’s Not Everything
The AiR Philosophy of Life talks of noteworthy success, to earn enough money to fulfil our need but not be trapped in the race and get caught in that maze of money, pleasure and possessions. Some people call it the ‘middle path’, where we earn enough. Neither are we dependent on others for our existence nor do we make money, our God. Unfortunately, because we do not have a clear philosophy of life, we end up at one extreme. We don’t live life respecting money and using it wisely, to live with fulfillment. Most of us make money, our everything!
When will we live with the right Philosophy of Life?
— HAPPPY AiR, The AiR Philosophy of Life
About HAPPPY AiR — Atman in Ravi
The Happpiness Ambassador, is a transformational author of over 110 books, a TEDx speaker, lyricist and singer of more than 1,500 life songs, a philanthropist for over three decades, and an Awakened Soul on a mission to Touch, Trigger and Transform lives, and to make this a Happpy world.
The Happpy AiR Movement led by him is a movement to inspire people to discover true, lasting Happpiness through the 3P Happpiness philosophy, and spread Happpiness to others.
The movement encourages people to go beyond temporary Pleasure and discover the deeper joy and fulfillment of Peace and Purpose. Pleasure, Peace and Purpose are the 3 Ps, the 3 keys to Eternal Happpiness.
