Cause of Happiness

मनसि च परितुष्टे कोर्थवान् को दरिद्रः?

If your mind is content, who is Richer? And who is poorer?

What is the cause of happiness in Life?
Is it Accumulation>
Is it Spending?
Or is it Charity?
Or is it Contentment??
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This question has been aptly answered many times in our scriptures. Now, we have some study to leave a pointer towards that conclusion. Read on ……

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Money can buy happiness, but only if you earn more than your peers, neighbours and friends.

Being highly paid is not enough, according to joint study by researchers at the University of Warwick and Cardiff University. To be happy, people must perceive themselves as being more highly paid than their friends and work colleagues, according to the study published in the journal Psychological Science.

The research focused on the reason why economic growth and development does not make people in rich nations happier. Making everybody in society richer will not necessarily increase overall happiness, the study said, because it is only having a higher income than other people that matters.

Money only makes people happier if it improves their social rank, the researchers said. The researchers examined how life satisfaction was related to how much money each person earned. However, they found that satisfaction was much more strongly related to the ran-ked position of the person’s income compared to people of the same gender, age, level of education, or from the same geographical area.

“Our study found that the ranked position of an individual’s income best predicted general life satisfaction, while the actual amount of income and the average income of others appear to have no significant effect,” lead researcher Chris Boyce said.

Earning a £1 million a year appears to be not enough to make you happy if you know your friends all earn £2 million a year,” lead researcher Chris Boyce from the University of Warwick’s department of psychology said.

“You might buy a new car. But if your neighbour has just bought the very same car, that new car doesn’t seem as good as it once was if you were the only one to have that car,” Boyce said.