Strength of the moral approach
Moral approach has several strengths. First of all, the ultimate goal is to create a happy man in harmonious society and as we have seen happiness cannot be disassociated from one’s orientation and ideas of happy life. By changing ideas of happiness and by adopting a self-centric approach it is possible to produce happiness amidst a disorderly world. In this sense only, Gandhi believed that one who has developed control over sense organs lives in Ramrajya (the kingdom of God) irrespective of what the external circumstances are. Krishnamurti, Mahirshi Ramana, Sri Aurobindo, and many other saints too believed that through meditation and meditation only it will be possible to reach higher levels of consciousness. Thus happiness is not contingent on anything external to human consciousness.
To quote Krishnamurti:
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Happiness does not come when you are striving for it -and that is the greatest secret, though it is very easily said. I can put it in a few simple words; but, by merely listening to me and repeating what you have heard,you are not going to be happy.Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly,mysteriously happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being. But that requires a great deal of understanding not joining an organization or trying to become somebody.
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