- Happiness is within us, outer happiness is fleeting and elusive. It is here and now, and not in the past or the future.
- Anything that is finite is subject to change, anything that changes, cannot bring permanent happiness: time, objects, status, people.
- Sadness is not our natural state, happiness is our true nature.
- We are happiest when asleep. Why? Because there are no thoughts!
- Therefore, happiness is a thoughtless state where there is no "I and my, you and yours…"
- The mind, whose nature is ignorance, cannot lead us to happiness.
- Our query begins with identifying the qualities (tamas, rajas, sattva) of everyday life, and optimizing the sattva in the mind: compassion, love, patience, independence
- "That (Brahman), the Light-of-all lights, is said to be beyond darkness; Knowledge, the Object-of-Knowledge, seated in the hearts of all, to be reached by Knowledge." Srimad Bhagvad Gita, Chapter 13, verse 18.
Foundation for our Upcoming Discussion: Factors required for knowledge
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