Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

The pleasurseeker's ideal of happiness is in short 'Live as the butterfly lives a few hours of a gay existence a flashing of gorgeous wings in the sunshine the fittings from flower to flower sipping honey the merry chasing of the mate and the final flutter and then the stillness of of death'. [...] 'One hundred times that bliss of the divine Gandharvas is one measure of the bliss of the Fathers enjoying their celestial life and likewise of a great sage learned in the Vedas and free from desires.1951 THE IDEAL OF TRUE HAPPINESS 399 ' 'One hundred times that bliss of the Fathers is one measure of the bliss of the Devas who are endowed with heavenly bodies through the merit of their lawful du [...] The knowledge of the Self of the divinity of man is the way to the attainment of this happiness and peace. [...] This is the driving power behind the wheels of life the determining cause of the course of the destiny of the individual's journey on earth. [...] Man stands far above and higher than the rest of created beings not merely by his possessing a higher order of intelligence but by the nobler and higher urge of his inherent divinity his power to detach himself from the finite and the tangible in pursuit of the Infinite and the Intangible and his distinct ability to discriminate between the real and the unreal between the temporal and the perenn