Keshwananda, personal communication, May 1, 2018) Other sadhus used expressions like happiness is the “quality of God” (Swamini Amritananda, personal communication, January 20, 2018), and “[happiness] reveals itself to us” (Swami Swarupananda, personal communication, February 27, 2018) The sadhus also used an expression “Satchidananda” (Sanskrit: sat meaning truth or existence, chit meaning consciousness, and ananda meaning happiness) (Swami Nigamananda, personal communication, January 31, 2018) to define happiness, showing happiness is conscious or consciousness itself All these expressions of sadhus revealed that happiness has an animate nature Theme and its four subthemes are about the animate nature of happiness As for the indescribable happiness, a Guru-level sadhu, Swami Bhoomananda in India, using both Hindi and English language, said, “That is, anirvachniye, jisko bole, indescribable, main bhi tumhein describe kar sakta hoon” [Happiness is indescribable, which cannot be described, even I cannot describe it to you] (personal communication, March 2, 2018) Another male sadhu from India, Swami Swarupananda, said in the Hindi language, “jab vo mil jata hai, vo anand hai, vo sab uski vyakhaya nahi kar saktein hain,” [when one discovers it, that is ananda (Sanskrit: happiness), even those who discover it cannot describe it] (personal communication, Feb 27, 2018) Even though the sadhus directly said it was difficult to describe happiness, the sadhus tried to explain the animate nature of happiness using different expressions Swamini Keshwananda referred to happiness as “… the knower of all our actions and inspirer and the carer, nurturer, full of mercy” (personal communication, May 1, 128