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KEY TO HAPPINESS 2
First of all I bow down to five Parmeshthi Bhagwanta (Parmeshthi=Supreme Being, Bhagwanta=Lord; they are Arihanta=omniscient lord/destroyer of all ghaati (obstructive) karmas, Siddha=liberated Souls, Achaarya= spiritual head preceptor ascetic/head of religious congregation, Upadhyaya=spiritual preceptor ascetic, Sadhu= ascetic/saint] before attempting to write on key to happiness. All the living beings yearn for happiness and they try to remain away from unhappiness. Happiness is of two types. One is physical-sensual happiness which is temporary or ephemeral and the other is spiritual happiness, which is permanent.
First I will describe physical-sensual happiness because all living beings are familiar with it since long time. To such worldly living beings, happiness means excellent health, plentiful wealth, favourable life partner, children, family, etc. What is the source of all such types of happiness? You will say good luck. Than the question arises how to acquire good luck? How to create it? The answer is by doing punya (meritorious/righteous deeds). Because our accumulated past punya only is called good luck whereas our past accumulated paapa (sins/evil
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