What Happens When You Eat Ice Cream?

Eating ice cream doesn't produce the source of happiness, but rather, it removes that sense of discontentment. When all these negative thoughts are dispelled, when they fade away, in that moment before you fall asleep, then that source of happiness is fully revealed without impediment. In our tradition, that's nicely shown by our use of the word shanti which means peace. This word shanty was deliberately used by the ancient richis because shanty is not what you get. It's what remains when you get rid of something. Shanti is is anunda, the source of Happiness suchiranunda, it's your true nature.