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“Happiest man is he who is happy under all circumstances”
minimum needs. On seeing such poverty-stricken people even worldly-minded people develop pity. It is unkind to regard one happy by imagining that one is better than the poor and the unhappy. Further this attitude also satisfies the sense of pride of possessions that we inherently have. This can never be called happiness. Does happiness lie in the thatched hut, looking at which one can get happiness? Unless we really find where happiness lies, we cannot really be happy.
Further the means we have chosen to obtain this happiness is also not correct, because here also it has not been attempted to know what happiness is but we have chosen to consider pleasures arising out of sensual joys as happiness. If it is held that happiness lies in imagination, we should also concede that real happiness does not exist anywhere. But this would not be a rational argument. It is, therefore, clear that in fact, sensual pleasures are imaginary and real happiness is quite different from these. The original question of 'What is real happiness' still stands.
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