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on which alone its enjoyment depends. No one who has analysed his feelings can possibly find anything in common between the ideal of happiness which he seeks and the sensusl gratification described above. What one really wants is the happiness which the gods enjoy-undying, un-abating, soul-enrapturing happinessnot the temporary gratification of lust but the exhilarating rhythm of ecstacy, delight or Bliss whatever it might be called.
This ecstatic delight which is neither evanescent nor the source of sorrow and pain, like the gratification of sensual lust, is really the nature of the Soul, though through ignorance it is unaware of the fact. The proof of this is to be found in the fact that the pleasure one experiences on the successful performance of some task, comes from within and is independent of the senses. Analysis reveals the fact that the essence of this kind of happiness lies in the notion of freedom, so that whenever the soul is freed from some irksome duty-obligation or restraint-and kinds of activities except the unrestrained 'pulsation' of freedom, are only the different forms of "bondage", its natural de-light (from de, intense, and light, lightness) hence, freedom at once manifests itself.
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