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SUKH : HAPPINESS
People want happiness and peace. No
one longs for unhappiness and turbulence.
All are running after happiness. But the
tragedy is that more the desire for being close
to happiness and peace, more the increase
in distance from them. No one knows since
when the game is going on. Gita tells us about
the true nature and character of happiness
and peace and also the simple and direct
way to achieve it, There is a feel-good factor
in the concept of sukh (happiness): one which
makes you comfortable, is favourable, appeals
to your internal and external senses. Opposite
to it - uncomfortable and discomforting feeling
- is unhappiness. Sensual happiness relates
to body. Such happiness is experienced when
the senses come in contact with the objects.
Happiness is experienced so long as our
senses are involved with worldly objects. The
moment the contact breaks, happiness