What does enjoying life mean?

Everyone enjoys life in their own unique way. The way one person enjoys life may not necessarily be the same way another person enjoys life. The important thing is that one should only enjoy that which is rightfully theirs, within limit and in a way that is morally upright. If one enjoys something without getting greedy about it, then they will experience peace and happiness. If you enjoy something that does not belong to you, or it does belong to you but you become greedy about it, it will have a negative reactionary effect on you.

Say for example you have a craving for ice cream and you eat half a tub of ice cream instead of a couple of scoops — what happens? You get a sugar rush, you may not be able to sleep well, you may even get a headache. So the amount of happiness you would have derived if you had a couple of scoops of ice cream turned out not to give you any happiness and actually had a negative effect on you, because you became greedy about it.

In Hindi there is a saying, ‘Sahaj meela so doodha baraabar,’ whatever is spontaneously obtained is as good as milk. Even if one obtains a glass of water naturally, without any effort, it is as good as milk. ‘Maang leeya so paani,’ and if one asks for a glass of milk, it will give the effect like water. ‘Khinch leeya so rakta baraabar,’ if it is obtained by snatching it away from someone, it is like drinking blood.