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maintaining their life process to the required
extent. The self-realising wise people search
for true and permanent happiness inside their
hearts. The true happiness and peace resides
within, The man is looking for it in the outside
world. This is ignorance. When the man
experiences the happiness inside his heart,
he withdraws from the worldly transient joys.
He feels no attraction towards them. His way
of thinking changes and along with it his life
style too.'
It is sheer ignorance and error that more
the means of enjoyment and money with us,
the more happy we are. There is no
permanent happiness in them. These are
merely means, not the end. In the material
world of today there is no dearth of enjoyable
things satisfying all our senses. Yet the man
is not happy and is facing tension, worry,
disease, lack of peace and contentment and
is living in a state of conflict. He has everything