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=What is Happiness?=
Happiness is a condition of gladness, sense of inner ease and welfare, contentment, a sunlit life—it is more quiet in its nature than joy and delight. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace#p58</ref>
==Types of Happiness==
Happiness in the ordinary sense is a sunlit state of the vital with or without cause.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/cheerfulness-and-happiness#p15</ref> It is of vital origin; it is impure and depends on circumstances. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/18-november-1933#p3</ref> But real happiness is of divine origin; it is pure and unconditioned. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/happiness#p23</ref>
==A Consequence not an Aim==
Superficial happiness and material success, however desirable to our vital nature, are not the main object of our existence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-true-aim-of-life#p53</ref> The aim of human life is to discover the Divine and to manifest it. Naturally this discovery leads to happiness; but this happiness is a consequence, not an aim in itself. And it is this mistake of taking a mere consequence for aim of life that has been the cause of most of the miseries which are afflicting human life. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/rebirth-and-other-worlds-karma-the-soul-and-immortality#p24</ref>
==Happiness in Parts of the Being==
Happiness and good fortune are what the lower part of our vital being most desires, misfortune and suffering what it most hates and dreads. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/rebirth-and-other-worlds-karma-the-soul-and-immortality#p22</ref> It is the vital which asks and asks and is never satisfied. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/letters-to-a-young-sadhak-iv#p19</ref>
In the psychic is the source of constant happiness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-soul-the-psychic#p86</ref> Love, joy and happiness come from the psychic. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-psychic-being#p23</ref> The psychic, the true deep feelings are always satisfied and never ask for anything. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-soul-the-psychic#p86</ref>
In children the psychic is often very much on the surface and it makes them peaceful and happy. As one grows up, the vital and the mind develop and take on more importance—and then the troubles and sorrows begin. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/30-august-1935#p2</ref>
When the vital being has been touched by the psychic, mere vital pleasure has no longer any interest, and may also be felt as a disturbance and discomfort because of the lowering effect upon the consciousness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-vital-and-other-levels-of-being#p20</ref>
=Why is Happiness Important?=