Swami Yatiswarananda 2

People seek happiness outside, in attributes, in forms, in the phenomenon, whereas it lies in themselves from all time and for all time and can never be lost. Whatever can be lost, can never bring true happiness to us. We commit the mistake of looking at a certain span of time instead of looking at the whole. Temporary happiness there is, no doubt, in worldly things and worldly relations, in human love and human affections, but temporary happiness can never mean real happiness, rather it is the opposite of it. Let us have the desire to know our nature, to know our true Self. In Self-realization alone there lies real blessedness.