LIFE CAN GIVE YOU NO HAPPINESS
MAHARSHI: The truth about happiness and suffering, which has been correctly determined by the wise, is this: outwardness of the mind is suffering; its inwardness is happiness.
RAMESH: The knowledge of Truth comes about when dispassion arises in a man after he has learned from personal experience that whatever life provides is truly hollow. The man of the world becomes the man of wisdom through recognizing that non-attachment is liberation whereas the passion for sensory objects and experience is bondage.
Pursuit of pleasure and pursuit of happiness are totally different. It is a physical sense that seeks pleasure. It is the heart that seeks happiness. Not pursuing pleasure, not wanting continuity of pleasure, is the happiness the human being seeks.
WAYNE: Desires that arise in the human mind and body are in themselves transient and benign. It is involvement by the False Sense of Authorship that converts a desire into suffering. When the False Sense of Authorship is finally dissolved desires can no longer lead to suffering.
from- CALM IS GREATER THAN JOY by Shirish Kumar S. Murthy. p89, Zen Publications (2010) ,https://advaita.3dcartstores.com/CALM-IS-GREATER-THAN-JOY-by-Shirish-Kumar-S-Murthy_p_434.html
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