Posted by: vishontar July 20, 2006
UNTOUCHABILITY FREE NEPAL....wow!!!
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Spiritual: This blue planet of the cosmos probably has never been in such a nicest state before. We have enough food for many, nice shelters and abundant clothing. Human rights, cooperation, skillful use of material and so many other things separate present civilization from the past ones. Besides abundant wealth and luxurious lifestyle, we are as poor as the past civilizations in case of happiness; even poorer. I am not baselessly claiming this. Read this latest discovery of psychologists: BBC Science/nature:Britain is less happy than in the 1950s - despite the fact that we are three times richer. What the happiness research suggests is that once average incomes reach about £10,000 a year, extra money does not make a country any happier. Click here ---Happiness formula! Rich means more you use the natural resources; it doesn’t mean that you are happier. BBC Science Nature: People can live long, happy lives without consuming large amounts of the Earth's resources, a survey suggests. The 178-nation "Happy Planet Index" lists the south Pacific island of Vanuatu as the happiest nation on the planet, while the UK is ranked 108th. Click here to read more! In conclusion, if you don’t have basic needs, you are in psychological torture; ie you are in misery. However, if you have basic needs and you want more to increase your happiness; it’s just insanity. Wealth doesn’t bring happiness. It seems ancient Hindus new this fact, that’s why they have established a unique culture of renunciation. Instead of building Pyramids like monuments, the ancient Hindu kings used to build Daansala from where they used to donate their wealth with infinite sympathetic joy. contd...
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