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“Happiest man is he who is happy under all circumstances”
proportionately with the desires satisfied, because real happiness lies in being above the plane of desires or what we may call the plane of Masters but not in their satisfaction. The fallacy in thinking that satisfaction of desires leads to happiness arises out of the reduction in logic namely that because we reduce our restlessness in partial absence of desires, it can, therefore, naturally be inferred that complete absence of desires will lead us to complete happiness. It is wrong to say that desires die out after their fulfilment and that should be regarded as happiness. Pleasures arising out of several joys are in fact unhappiness because they have the restlessness which makes one unhappy. Happiness means ease and complete lack of restlessness and pleasures of senses do not have that mental ease.
We have to find what happiness is and unless we find it, it is not possible to have it at all. Here lies, the great teaching our Master who grants us a first experience what happiness is and we imperience what bliss is. Happiness is a state of consciousness. Consciousness is the essential characteristic and
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