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Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

(Master Teacher: Happiness & Well-Being, Laughter Yoga Master Trainer, Author, Blogger, Educator, and Speaker.)

Authored six books on happiness: Cultivating Happiness, Nirvana – The Highest Happiness, Meditate Like the Buddha, Mission Happiness, A Flourishing Life, and The Little Book of Happiness. He served in a bank for thirty-five years and has been propagating happiness and well-being among people for the past twenty years. He is on a mission – Mission Happiness!

😎 Musings of a Man Too Accomplished for His Own Good 🤠

As I grow older, I find myself becoming alarmingly creative. Ideas bloom faster than grey hairs, and that’s saying something. Once upon a time, I used to chase inspiration; now inspiration chases me, panting, begging me to slow down so it can keep up.

I am, as people love to announce at public gatherings, a man of many hats. The problem is, I have run out of heads.

Recently, at an event, a young compere, brimming with enthusiasm and adjectives, introduced me thus:

“Ladies and gentlemen, our next speaker is a man whose laughter is contagious, whose words inspire, and whose mission is pure happiness! Mr Jagat Singh Bisht — Author, Blogger, Laughter Yoga Master Trainer, Behavioural Science Trainer, Founder of LifeSkills… He has written twelve books on happiness and well-being, the teachings of the Buddha, and humour and satire… He has conducted laughter sessions for Nestlé, SBI, HP, HCL, AAI, and more… After 35 years in banking, he has spent 25 years spreading smiles. He lives and breathes Mission Happiness!”

By the time she finished, I half expected the audience to rise in unison and chant my name, or at least offer me a flower garland and a glass of tender coconut water.

I smiled modestly — as modestly as one can when one has just been publicly compared to a one-man United Nations of wisdom and cheer.

The truth is, my CV could make Nobel Laureates weep.

My résumé, if released into the corporate world, might cause a hiring freeze at Google, Apple, and Microsoft. Out of sheer compassion for humanity, I keep it locked in a drawer. Why make thousands of ambitious young people redundant before their time?

LinkedIn often sends me polite notifications: “People are viewing your profile.”

I can only imagine the tremors that follow.

I sometimes thank destiny that matrimonial websites didn’t exist in my youth. Had I uploaded my photograph and bio-data back then, the internet might have collapsed decades before it did under the weight of cat videos and conspiracy theories. Prospective brides would have fought duels in my honour, and I would have been forced to retire to the Himalayas for safety — which, come to think of it, would not have been a bad idea.

Today, I enjoy good health, peace of mind, happiness, and fulfilment — which, in modern terms, means I have failed economically. Wealth is the only thing missing, and I suspect the universe omitted it deliberately, just to maintain cosmic balance. A touch of poverty, after all, adds flavour to enlightenment.

So here I am — rich in wisdom, poor in wallet, sitting quietly at home, waking up before dawn to pen these musings for an audience that may or may not be awake. The world sleeps, and I write — a man overflowing with knowledge, talent, and experience, spending his retirement in glorious obscurity.

What a colossal waste, you may say!

Ah, but that’s where the beauty lies. The lotus blooms in muddy water, and wisdom often blossoms in solitude. The Buddha found enlightenment under a tree; I, under a ceiling fan.

The world may not know it, but I — Jagat Singh Bisht — am living proof that happiness, humour, and humility can coexist, though the first two keep laughing at the third.🔸

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