The Happiness Guarantee

Hence the only way to guarantee happiness is the eradication of desire. In fact, all happiness, long-term or short-term, is a function of desire and the cessation of agitation.

That's why knowledge is important. It informs us of facets not yet experienced.

Happiness then is a habit, not an acquisition. It is not the gaining of anything in particular, except perhaps the knowledge of living.

Delusion: The desire, and its resultant emotions, often spin out of control resulting in us losing all sense and sensibility.

the quality of the intellect i.e., the capacity of discrimination.

The river of happiness peters away among the rocks of agitations. This journey of happiness is referred to as a womb of sorrow in the Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 5, Verse 22) because it gives birth to a host of future sorrows.

All unhappiness is caused by desire.

fear gives rise to relief, competition to exhilaration, stress to calmness, etc.

Any state can be called happiness. All it requires is that the agitations increase and then subside.