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you cannot have one. The harmonious person is bound to be cheerful, overflowing with joy and the joyous person cannot be but harmonious.
My effort here is to give you methods of both kinds. It sirs a few to start by being cheerful; those who are alert enough to snap out of their settled misery -- which is just a mind-phenomenon, which is just like a dream, a nightmare. Those who are capable of snapping our of it can start be being cheerful, by singing, by dancing, and they will become harmonious. If it is not possible ... For a few people the nightmare seems so real that they go round and round but they cannot come out to it. It seems impossible for them to come it. Whatsoever they do feeds the nightmare. Then they have to start by being harmonious. Then dancing and singing are not,, and cannot be their beginning. Then they have to so something like zazen, vipassana... Some silent meditation which creates harmony first. Once it is there they can dance and they can sing.
For you it will be good to start being cheerful. You can manage it!
(To Ingo) -- This is your name: Swami Ingo. Ingo comes from eng. Ing is a mythological god of peace and prosperity.
Be peaceful and you are prosperous... but not in the ordinary sense of the word 'prosperity'. Not that you will become wealthy, not that you will have many possessions by being peaceful, but one thing is certain: by being peaceful, whatsoever you have will be more than enough, you will be contented with it. That is prosperity.
There was one Indian mystic who used to call himself 'Emperor'; his name was Rama but he always called himself Emperor Rama. The first book that he wrote, he entitled SIX ORDERS OF EMPEROR RAMA. When he went to America people used to ask him 'Why do you call yourself Emperor? We don't see anything in you, in fact you seem to be just a beggar.' A begging bowl was his only possession. He would laugh and we would say 'That's why I call myself an emperor because I desire nothing and I possess the whole of existence!'
When you don't desire, a tremendous prosperity happens; that of non-desire. Peace brings prosperity, prosperity of the inner, prosperity not
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