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DISCOURSE 94
cannot get commendable happiness. I will mention here a few examples of both the types of happiness.
THE TWO MEDIA FOR YOUR CHOICE
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If one is born as a human being, it is a matter of happiness but that happiness would be condemnable if he is born in an ignoble family. It is commendable if he is born in a noble family.
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If the mother who gives birth to you is a woman of chastity, affection and culture, the happiness that you get from your mother is commendable but the happiness that you get from your mother will be condemnable if she is impure, unchaste and uncultured.
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In the same manner, you get happiness from your father but if your father happens to be poor, uncultured and addicted to bad habits, then that happiness is condemnable. If your father is wealthy, cultured and virtuous then that happiness you get from him is commendable.
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It is happiness for a grihastha if he secures a wife but that happiness is condemnable if she happens to be ugly, unchaste, irritable or infatuated. If your wife is chaste, loving, beautiful and dutiful then the happiness you get from her is commendable.
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It is happiness to secure friends but if those friends are ignoble, deceptive and if they are men of disrepute then the happiness you get from them is condemnable but if those friends are noble, cultured and popular, the happiness you get from them is commendable.
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There is happiness in earning money and acquiring wealth but if that wealth is acquired by means of stealing or violence or any another immoral method then the happiness you get from your wealth is condemnable; but if you acquire wealth by hard work, by carrying out morally and legally acceptable occupations and proper traditional occupations of your family then the happiness you get from your wealth is commendable.
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