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The happiness of the world that surpasses other joys of the world is not the true happiness.  Not the Absolute.  Such happiness may come and go and again be sought after, thought about and struggled over to recover once again.  The true happiness, the bliss of the final Truth, is not comparable to these other happinesses.  Why?  Because when it arises no comparison occurs and no comparison is possible.  It does not arise in the relative world because it does not take a particular, limited form to be set along side some other particular, pleasureable form.  It arises as universal and eternal.  It is the happiness of the end of all pursuit of knowledge and fulfillment, the Bliss of Ananda.  No comparisons arise; no questions bring it into doubt.  One is whole and complete as the Self of Consciousness, living in the Awareness of One's own Eternality.  All else is child's play, not to be scoffed at let alone condemned but to be seen as the joyfulness of the childhood of the spirit with its pleasures and pains, joys and sorrows, leading us to final fulfillment in the Absolute.

THE I AM THAT I AM

Meditation is listening for the music; Consciousness is hearing the music.  Awareness is the unity of meditation and consciousness.