ananda | आनंद

Anand (Devanagari: आनंद ISO15919: ānaṁda) means bliss, happiness, joy.

Vedas proclaim that God is Anand. Vedas define Anand as the happiness with following traits

1. Unlimited: no other bliss surpasses it in magnitude
2. Eternal: it does not cease one day
3. Ever new: it always feels new and never goes stale
4. Ever increasing: constantly increases in magnitude
5. Conscious: means sat. God is not inert, instead it is alive and sentient
6. Omniscient: means chit or all knowing. God is the only one who knows everything at all times.

If happiness does not have these traits then it is asat ananda.

Also written as anand

LEARN MORE

• sacchidananada
• Bliss

REFERENCE

Prema Rasa Siddhanta - Philosophy of Divine Love, Ch. 12