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- Ananda — The True Meaning of Happiness | Excerpt
Acharya Prashant explains how what we commonly understand as happiness exists only in the backdrop of sadness, and what man is really looking for is not just happiness, but Ananda – an unconditional joy free from both happiness and sadness. Discarding multiple myths that burden our consciousness, the book draws from scriptures like the Gita and the Upanishads, revealing the true meaning of Ananda.
About the Book - Ananda
What is that one fundamental thing for which we go about toiling all our lives - sacrificing, negotiating, scheming, praying? Intuitively, one might answer - happiness. But do we really know what happiness is?Most of the existing literature paints a…
About the Author - Acharya Prashant
Acharya Prashant is a powerful voice of socio-spiritual awakening in today’s world. He is an acclaimed Vedanta exegete and author of over eighty books, including the national bestseller Karma – Why Everything You Know About it is Wrong. An alumnus…
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