Happiness QnA

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Q. What is happiness? Is it inherent in the Self or in the object or

in the contact between the subject and the object ?

 

A. When there is contact with a desirable object or memory thereof,

and when there is freedom from undesirable contacts, or memory

thereof, we say there is happiness. Such happiness is relative and

is better called pleasure. But we want absolute and permanent

happiness. This does not reside in objects but in the Absolute. It

is peace free from pain and pleasure - it is a neutral state.

 

 

-- Ramana Maharshi

 

Hari Aum !!!