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because it yields real happiness. The worldly life yields happiness no doubt, but that is pseudo-happiness. The worldly happiness arises through the fulfilment of desires. It is the very nature of a desire that as soon as or even before it is fulfilled hundreds of others crop up. It is not possible for all these new desires to be fulfilled. Even if that be possible, there will meanwhile arise thousands of other desires whose fulfilment will remain certainly impossible. It is implied, therefore, that in the worldly life the unhappiness born of the non-fulfilment of desires always weighs heavier than the happiness born of the fulfilment thereof. Hence, the happiness in question is called pseudo-happiness. On the other hand, liberation involves an absence of all desires and an emergence of natural contentment which lasts forever. This kind of happiness is real happiness. And that is the end of suffering.
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