I don't think anyone is making general and sweeping statements about whether premies as a whole are happy or not.

Surely someone's state of happiness is influenced by many things, including their environment around them, their belief system, and their general attitude and disposition. It is quite possible for some folks to be in dire circumstances (serious illness, for instance) and yet be remarkably cheerful and 'happy', although they would naturally prefer not to be in their situation.

In the same way, it is quite possible to subscribe to a belief system that lessens one's self-worth and stultifies critical thinking, and yet be happy and positive. The point is, how much more happy and positive would you be if you did not have that belief system? I think considerably.

For me, Rawatism (the belief system that premies must buy into to be premies) is such a belief system. I write a couple of articles about this belief system on my site (Maharaji's Believable Message and The Belief System that is not a Belief System).

The point is not so much how happy premies are on some absolute scale ranging from miserable to ecstatic, but where on that scale would they be if they did *not* hold that belief system, compared to where they are now?

I feel a theorem coming on. How about this: The happier a premie genuinely is, the less of a premie they really are, in the sense of having Rawatism at the center of their life?

It is a bit general, and I don't insist on it. But I am convinced that Rawatism as a belief system lessens a person's worth and value, at least in their own eyes if no-one else's.