Santosha is a practice; happiness philosophy

Sustained Happiness is a result of mental practice. So it is ones control to feel internally happy irrespective of external situation and challenges

The Santosha process is a continuous delinking and disassociating process

Santosha is property of true self just like heat and light to fire......the soul sheds ananda light to its sorroundings

Happiness is process of disassociation

Mind can be taught to remain silent all the time; why only when condition is met? Tame the mind

One cannot control external situation and challenges but one can always control the inner santosha or contentment

One can make the inner environment independent of the external environment

When the inner environment is rooted in the soul rather than on the external, one can reach this state

Then one can react to external in form of duty rather than with attachment

Only when one stops taking happiness from the external can one become independent of external

One has to disconnect emotions, feeling and happiness from external world

Taittriya upanishad says - when the mind stops with no positioning of past or future, in mana shunyata there is experience of awareness of present and in that the universal self is experienced which is called hapiness

The same process happens when mind meets conditions wrt external world

Take responsibility to your sadness; since you built it as source of happiness in the first place in your mind

Be very careful in the association phase especially when something external generates happiness impulse and that involves a price

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What is the sanskrit meaning of santosha?

Uncontrolled senses lead to unwanted ambitions

Searching for happiness in things one already is granted is called santosha.

Sam means complete substance - so the complete substance within us is Paramatma and his fragment atma. So searching for happiness in the boundary of atma paramatma and bhakti is called santosha - this will bring forth tusthi which is true happiness

Reposit ones happiness aspirations ambitions in only the complete substance poorna vastu - poorna prajna bhagavantha

yas tvātma-ratir eva syād ātma-tṛiptaśh cha mānavaḥ ātmanyeva cha santuṣhṭas tasya kāryaṁ na vidyate For him who rejoices in the Self and who becomes illumined and fully content with the Self, there is no need for any duty.Bhagavad Gita 3.17

To master contentment, accept things, people, situations as they are. Be grateful to your have-s and ignore your haven’t-s. Accept life as it is. Complaint not how hard it is on your part to go through. Be equipoised in happiness and sorrow, friends and enemy, birth and death, praise and scold. Be happy which is intrinsic in you.