WHAT ARE WE SEEKING? HAPPINESS
Shri Swami Purushottamananda Ji
The happiness we are seeking is inside us. Within us is the fountain-head of bliss, even a drop of which is quite sufficient to make us fully intoxicated forever and destroy completely our misery and pain.
But fools as we are, we believe that happiness is somewhere outside and can be obtained through wife and children, wealth and property, name and fame, and consequently we spend most of our life in acquiring these external things.
We are like the deer which goes on running after a mirage to quench its thirst and falls dead ultimately without finding the water.
We spend our life in searching for happiness and find that life is mostly full of sorrow and suffering. Even the temporary enjoyments are found to lead to suffering ultimately.
