[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Re: HAPPINESS LIES IN THE ELIMINATION OF EGO

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Namaste Prashantji,

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 6:25 PM Prashant Parikh <prashantparikh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> That would seem to be an erroneous conclusion. Firstly I don't believe the
> goal of Vedanta is to seek happiness by any stretch...
>
> The above views are held valid per the sampradaya,
>

The (orthodox) sampradAya view of mokSha, the end goal of all pursuits, is
Atyantika-duHkha-nivRtti, niratishaya-sukha-prApti. Upanishad says bhUmA
vai sukham, na-alpe sukham asti. viShayasukha is to be shunned, but
svarUpAnanda cannot even be avoided! A jIvanmukta's antaHkaraNa being
shuddha cannot but reflect svarUpAnanda. IMO, everything else can likely
spiral down into jnAnAbhAsa!

gurupAdukAbhyAm,
--Praveen R. Bhat
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