The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.s3.t2.26

v2.c16.s3.t2.26

“Each individual seeketh his own happiness in a diversity of ways: in the bonds of affection, in marriage, or otherwise, in the reading,—in the rearing of offspring,—in foreign travel :—in these and other similar objects, doth man provide happiness of every degree. But there is great ruination, excessive of all kinds when (a man) maketh worldly objects his happiness. On the contrary, this is what is to be done,—(for most certainly that species of happiness is a fruitless happiness)—to obtain the happiness which yieldeth plentiful fruit, even the happiness of virtue; that is to say :—kindness to dependants, reverence to spiritual teachers are proper; humanity to animals is proper; all these acts and others of the same kind, are to be rightly denominated the happiness of virtue!