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Whatever one may desire, the ultimate end is happiness. Nobody can deny this. But if a diseased fellow thinks, "I am happy," that is false happiness. A diseased man cannot be happy unless the disease is cured. Sometimes we go to a diseased person and ask, "How are you?" "Yes, I am all right." If he is all right, why is he lying down? He is not all right. He is artificially saying that "I am all right." What is this "all right"? Similarly, people are thinking, "I am happy." What is their happiness? A learned man always sees, "What is the value of this happiness? I will have to die, I will have to accept old age, I will have to suffer from disease. And as soon as I die, again I will have to enter into the womb of a particular mother to take birth again." So where is the happiness? Ignorantly if we accept something as happiness, that is not happiness. Full of anxieties always: "What will happen next?'' They're suffering, but they are accepting, "I am all right.'' So this is called maya. Real happiness is when you are free from birth, death, old age, disease. Otherwise, where is your happiness? But if you think that "Although I am dying, I am happy," that is another thing, a fool's paradise. Bhagavata says, “Purify your existence, and you'll get perpetual, eternal happiness.” So everyone is working hard for happiness, but how happiness can be attained in diseased condition? So cure the disease. If you go when there is ailment, if you go to a physician, "Sir, cure me." "Why?" because it is impediment to happiness. Similarly, the real disease is birth, death, old age, disease. You cure this, then you get real happiness.

PM of INDIA opinion on govt.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the government's decision to allow foreign equity in retail was not taken in haste but after a careful thought to how it would benefit the common man in India.

"We didn't take the decision hastily. We have thought a lot and firmly believe that this decision will benefit us a lot," said Manmohan Singh, addressing a rally of elected Youth Congress leaders here.

Manmohan Singh said foreign direct investment in India's retail sector would benefit farmers as "this will bring latest technology to India" and improve its agriculture sector by saving farm produce from being destroyed.

"This will curb inflation and the common man can get daily essential commodities at lesser rates," he said, reading from a paper in Hindi.

He asked young leaders of the ruling Congress to help the government in sending a right message to the public about its intention behind the FDI in India.

Manmohan Singh flayed the opposition for opposing the key decision on economic reforms, saying they were disrupting parliament and blocking crucial legislations needed for India's economic prosperity.

He said the world economic situation was affected by the US and European debt crisis.

"We weathered the storm of 2008 meltdown. We need new legislations and amendments to older ones now. We need parliament to work properly, but the opposition is not allowing it to happen," he said.

"We always believe that the differences should be debated and if we are disrupting Parliament, we are doing injustice to the people who have elected us to parliament," he said.

He said the government was trying to end the parliament logjam, triggered by various issues, including inflation, statehood for Telangana and now the FDI controversy.

He said the government has put certain conditions in the FDI decision so that small and medium enterprises were not affected by the proposed foreign equity.

"There will be no coercion. The states which think it is not fruitful can choose not to allow foreign shops in their states," he said.

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