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U ), then also in human Lire there can
not be the experience of happiness and unhappiness.
This needs to be clarified: a) Absence of happiness and unhappiness when one be lieves that Atmn exists at all times (statins toca ) Since happiness and unhappiness are opposed to each other they cannot be experienced at the same time - but onlyfsequentially. Thus, ir the experience of happiness and unhappiners 13 sequential, then the Atmo carnot remain in the same state at all times. To be clear, once the Atma has experienced happiness it (conhappy Atma) dies and is reborn to experience unhappiness, and then it again dies as an unhappy Atma 2 to experience happiness. Thus by believing that the Atma exists at all times in one state - namely that of happiness means that a human being cannot experience happiness or unhappi
ness.
b) Absence of happiness and unhappiness when one believes that the Ating is destroying itself at all times: (Schizione ): As said earlier, happiness and unhappiness cannot be experienced similtaneously but only sequentially..... and this latter is possible only if the Atma continues to exist at the next moment, Thus as the Buddhists believe that the Atma too is destroyed every moment, then how can it experience happiness and unhappiness?
