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"I am", "I am not", "i am HE"
I ask you, "If happiness is inherent in the soul, why does not man experience it?" Science has provided us with ample means of material comfort yet do we come across a single man who can say with his hand on his heart, "Behold! I am supremely happy?" Why is this so?
We cannot say that because life full of pain and sorrow, it is impossible to attain supreme happiness and therefore it is man's lot to suffer. For if this were so then saints and seers would not have attained the supreme bliss that they did. The reason why man cannot be happy is that he does not know where happiness lies.
The functioning of a democracy depends on the opinion of the majority; but if we were to give credence to the opinion of the majority then we would have to believe that there is only unhappiness in this world, for the saints and sages such as Mahavir, Parshvanath and Rama who have preached the gospel of happiness are very much in the minority. It is only
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