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Dec 2019
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Happiness Through Externals is a Failed ...

RAGHUNATH CAPPO & KAUSTUBHA DAS
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Raghunath & Kaustubha discuss how true happiness is an internal experience, as the nature of the soul is spiritual happiness, and when we seek happiness through externals we enter into a disappointing competition for limited resources.

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