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there are two conceptions of the standard of happiness here below. These two conceptior.s are in their turn based on two standards of spiritual development. There is one class of people who feel happiness in the achievement of worldly gains, and there is another type of people who hold that there is happiness in the development of the spiritual power and in scelfrealization. The achievement of the worldly means of happiness is not in one's power. One may not achieve them in spite of one's hard work and toil to the utmost. And then, even after achieving the means one may not be completely happy; but in the latter case, spiritual achievment and happiness are guaranteed if the prescribed rules of conduct are observed. So it is that Goldsmith, in his novel Vicar of Wakefield, says : "It is possible to be completely miserable but it is not possible to be completely happy." On the former path one is dependent; while on the latter, one is quite independent. From the former's point of view, the world is man's home;while from the latter's point of view, the world is an inn, on way to home, Robert Browning's lines in Pauline imply the same thing when he says:
