What is Happiness or Anand or Inward Comfort?
1. Life in its pure form is full of Happiness.
2. Happiness evaporates when we run after the temporal and the transient.
3. Happiness, which is infinite, is revealed when the "I" is no more.
4. Duty done with an awareness of God's presence generates Happiness in life.
5. Snow and coldness go together. So also God and Happiness live together.
6. Forget yourself in God for five minutes everyday, you will enjoy a volume of Happiness.
7. We live not on Happiness but on hope which is a faint copy of Happiness.
8. Happiness is eternal and it transends the seen.
9. Pain and consiousness of pain are different. Hence man can maintain his Happiness in pain provided he directs his consiousness to God.
10. The Sun who is the home of light knows no darkness. So also God who is the fountain-head of Happiness knows no suffering.
11. Body and mind become delicate in old age. Happiness acts like a tonic to old people.
12. He who does not allow his Happiness to fade enjoys a never ending festival.
13. Happiness is a shakti or power that is unaffected by worldly success and failure.
14. God and His Bhakta (divotee) are one. The Bhakta is as wide as God. Hence he sees Happiness every-where.
15. Happiness of divine experience and peace of deep sleep stand poles apart. The former is positive and for all time. The latter is negative and quite shortlived.
16. Happiness resides in selfless love.
17. Happiness is a product of the mind's being steady in the contemplation of God.
