pleasant, happy; happiness, pleasure, joy, bliss.
It is one of the three feelings (s. vedanā) and may be either bodily or
mental.
The texts distinguish between the happiness of the senses and the
happiness of
renunciation (A. II), worldly (carnal; sāmisa) and unworldly
(non-carnal; nirāmisa) happiness (M. 10).
See A.II, ch. VIII. -
Happiness is an indispensable condition for attaining concentration of mind (samādhi,
q.v.), and therefore it is one of the 5 factors (or constituents) of the 1st
absorption (jhānanga; s. jhāna) and is present up to the 3rd
absorption inclusively. "The mind of the happy one has concentration as its
fruit and reward" (A.X,1). - "In him who is filled with happiness,
right concentration has found a foundation" (A.X,3).

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