Devanagari: आनंद ISO15919: ānaṁda also written as anand
Bliss, happiness, joy. The Vedas proclaim that God is ananda. They define ananda as happiness with the following traits:
- Unlimited: no other bliss surpasses it in magnitude
- Eternal: it does not cease one day
- Ever new: it always feels new and never goes stale
- Ever increasing: constantly increases in magnitude
- Conscious: it is sat or sentient
- Omniscient: it is chit or all-knowing.
Sat and chit are adjectives of ananda. If happiness does not have these traits, then it is called asat ananda.
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