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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 7
 direction and achieve happiness without deciding what real happiness is.
Some thinkers consider that happiness does not lie in objects of enjoyment and that happiness or unhappiness lies in imagination or thinking. To prove their point of view they give examples like the one following: A man has a two-storey house; on the right is a five storey building and on the left a thatched hut. When he sees right, he feels unhappy and when he sees left he feels happy. As such happiness does not lie in possession of sensory objects, but in imagination they advise people to look towards those, who have fewer possessions and be happy. If you look towards people having more wealth and possessions, you will always be unhappy.
However we will find that it is unreasonable to hold that happiness lies in thinking like this. To say that if we want to be happy we should look towards the poor denies us the very basic human character of pity, sympathy and compassion. We know that those poor people cannot satisfy even their
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