Happiness

When you make a deep reflection, you will understand that; in life we start out in ignorance; acknowledge our ignorance and become perplexed; and then, by continued cross-examination of our answers, arrive at a true belief which can eventually be converted into knowledge by the same method.

Until then knowledge will be justified as a True belief fully shown in a person who is Just, courageous, wise and moderated. To understand this; One must see the human soul as divided into 3 parts or elements. It is in the functioning of these parts within each individual's soul, and their relation to one another that the person's virtue will be found. The 3 parts are:

• The reasoning part
• The spiritual part
• The appetitive part
  

We learn with the part 1 which is the reasoning one; we get angry, happy or emotional with the part 2; and we get the desire and pleasure of food, drink, sex and others that are closely akin with the part 3. However all the 3 parts of the soul are desires but the 3rd part is the desire to satisfy bodily appetites hence being the source of selfishness and all the worse that the world suffer from.

The spiritual part is not only the capacity for reasoning but the desire to learn the Truth and to regulate our behavior accordingly. The spiritual part with which we get angry is thought of as desiring to show our characteristic mainly a desire to gain honor. If we look closer inside, we see that the 3 parts can't be willing to do things at the same time, always one at the time.

By analyzing these 3 parts within us; we know who we truly are as the wise say: "He who understands himself and his emotions loves God, and the more so, the more he understands himself and his emotions. Through this process, he will be full in love, which stems from the pursuit of knowledge and the mind will wholly be active in loving God and hence rejoices constantly without passion in the object its contempletion for God Himself is free from passion, pleasure and emotion; He loves but Hates No one, and he who loves God not only understands and accept this fact but cannot endeavor to bring it about that God should Love him in return. This dis-interested Love is the very Love with which God loves Himself and by participating in it as Just people; we are on with God and Blessed with His Tranquility and Happiness