Within the various schools of Hindu thought, there are different paths and ways of achieving Happiness. He proposes that ananda can be attained by inner enquiry, using the thought "Who am I?" Ways of achieving ānanda Sri Ramana MaharshiĪccording to Ramana Maharshi, happiness is within and can be known only through discovering one's true self. Vishishtadvaita vedantaĪccording to the Vishishtadvaita vedanta school which was proposed by Ramanujacharya, true happiness can be only through divine grace, which can be only achieved by surrender of one's ego to the Divine.
Through evenness of temper and mind, the state of supreme bliss is reached in all aspects of one’s life. Dvaita vedantaīased on a reading of the Bhagavad Gita, Dvaita vedanta interprets ananda as happiness derived via good thoughts and good deeds that depend on the state and on the control of the mind. The Upanishads repeatedly use the word Ānanda to denote Brahman, the innermost Self, the Blissful One, which, unlike the individual self, has no real attachments.
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Having become established in Brahman it becomes jivanmukta (a being free from the cycle of rebirth). Advaita vedantaĪccording to the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy, ananda is that state of sublime delight when the jiva becomes free from all sins, all doubts, all desires, all actions, all pains, all sufferings and also from all physical and mental ordinary pleasures. Aurobindo goes on to say that the concepts of pain and suffering are due to habits developed over time by the mind, which treats success, honour and victory as pleasant things and defeat, failure, misfortune as unpleasant things. However, mankind develops dualities of pain and pleasure. Sri AurobindoĪccording to Sri Aurobindo, happiness is the natural state of humanity, as he mentions in his book The Life Divine he informs about it as delight of existence. Swami Vivekananda has claimed that the reason different meanings of ānanda and different ways of achieving it are present in Hindu philosophy is that humans differ from each other, and each chooses the most appropriate path to ānanda for him or herself. This essential description of 'ānanda' as an aspect of the non-dual Brahman is further affirmed by Adi Shankaracharya commentary on the Brahma Sutras, Chapter 1, Section 1, Shloka 12, आनन्दमयोऽभ्यासात्. Perhaps the most comprehensive treatise on 'ānanda' is to be found in the Ananda Valli of Taittiriya Upanishad, where a gradient of pleasures, happiness, and joys is delineated and distinguished from the "ultimate bliss" (ब्रह्मानंद)- absorption in Self-knowledge, a state of non-duality between object and subject. 4 References Different descriptions of Ānanda in Hindu philosophy Taittiriya Upanishad.1 Different descriptions of Ānanda in Hindu philosophy.
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