What's the difference between bliss and happiness?
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Bliss is a great deal stronger than happiness. You can be happy because it's not raining today, or because you found your glasses. But bliss is reserved for a state of complete, perfect happiness, such as what you may experience by finding your soulmate or having a transcendent spiritual experience. |
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Happiness is an emotion while bliss is a condition of the mind. Emotions occur at an excited state of the mind and anything that's at an excited state comes back to ground state. Whereas bliss is a general state of the mind by itself, it doesn't take anything to do in order to attain bliss - it's just there. Whereas to feel happy, you need to do something like getting good marks, earning money, making friends,and so on. The path to attain a state of bliss is through self contentment, where all your actions are done without ego involved - consequences don't matter but your willingness to do something is what matters. |
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