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I m always intrigued with the word happiness. Happiness is used in pop psychology as an easily achievable state of mind. Is it? Do we confuse a transient sense of pleasure that comes when we gain something wordly with something more permanent that comes from discipline and effort
Interestingly the english happiness and other European words etymologically mean luck! Again the link to material gain. Tamizh has two equivalent words மகிழ்ச்சி of the rajnikAnth fame which again sounds transient and உவகை which seems to be closer to bliss. The other ancient
language संस्कृतम् has a close word सुखं। the Vedic use seems to be pleasure. The Mahabharata which personifies these traits calls it the offspring of dharma and siddhi. Clearly happiness as our morning messages tell us is a transient joy (from the Latin gaudere). Bliss a
