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===Mastering Desires===
One can master desires by giving up all personal seeking for comfort, satisfaction, enjoyment or happiness. <ref><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/psychic-education-and-spiritual-education#p7</ref>
Self-mastery is the greatest conquest, it is the basis of all enduring happiness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/desires-impulses-and-self-control#p47</ref> If you want to lead a happy life, you must be the master of your lower nature and control your desires and vital impulses; otherwise there is no end to the miseries and the troubles. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/desires-impulses-and-self-control#p28</ref>
===Surrender to the Divine===
One can obtain true happiness and keep it constantly only by discovering one's psychic being and uniting with it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/22-september-1963#p3</ref>
A human being is made of many different parts and it takes time and conscious effort to harmonise and unify all these parts. When one surrenders, it is not the whole of your being that does so. Little by little some other part that had not surrendered comes to the surface and the joy of the surrender vanishes. But after some time this part also gets converted and thus the happy condition comes back.
===Generosity===
The happiness you give makes you more happy than the happiness you receive. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/happiness#p26</ref> Indeed the very act of genuine self-giving is its own immediate reward—it brings with it such happiness, such confidence, such security as nothing else can give. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-ordinary-life-and-the-true-soul#p3</ref>
===Gratitude===
It is so good to be simple, simply good-willed, to do the best one can, and in the best way possible; not to build anything very considerable but only to aspire for progress, for light, a peace full of goodwill, and let That which knows in the world decide for you what you will become, and what you will have to do. One no longer has any cares, and one is perfectly happy! <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/21-july-1954#p70</ref>
In conclusion being happy is the surest way of progress <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/happiness#p4</ref> but seeking personal happiness is not the aim of life. The supreme happiness is to be true servitors of the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/14-february-1972#p3</ref> For it is to the Divine Work that one must exclusively belong because it alone can, give us true happiness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/longer-letters#p39</ref> '''Content curated by Helen'''
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Read more about '''[[Happiness Hapiness Compilation|Happiness]]''' from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
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