Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Happiness and Misery in the World

If the power to satisfy our desire is increasing in arithmetical progression, the power of desire is increased in geometrical progression. 

The sum total of happiness and misery in this world is at least the same throughout. If a wave rises in the ocean it makes a hollow somewhere. If happiness comes to one man, unhappiness comes to another or, perhaps, to some animal.

Men are increasing in numbers and some animals are decreasing; we are killing them off, and taking their land; 
we are taking all means of sustenance from them. 
How can we say, then, that happiness is increasing? 

                                - Swami Vivekananda, Jnana-Yoga, London


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