Happiness

The root cause of a person's suffering is their pride. Even if someone makes a sacrifice, they can still get caught up in their own pride. What is the point of such a sacrifice? It is pride, or ego, that should be sacrificed. That is where true happiness and bliss are found.

We have been given this human life to understand the all-pervading, omnipresent God. This knowledge can only be given by someone who has themselves realized God. Life becomes truly happy only after meeting such a God-realized person.

That which arises from the contact of the senses with their objects and seems like nectar at first but like poison in the end — that happiness is remembered as rajasic.

That which seems like poison at the start but is like nectar at its fullness — born of the serenity of Self and intellect — that happiness is declared to be sattvic.

All the blessed regions that belong to the gods can be obtained through penance. Penance is the root of great happiness. Those who practice severe penance and give up their bodies can attain the status of gods.

That happiness which deludes the self both at the outset and in its aftermath, arising from sleep, sloth, and heedlessness — that is declared to be tamasic.

Now hear from Me the threefold nature of happiness, O best of the Bharatas — that in which one delights through practice, and through which one reaches the end of suffering.

There is no discernment for one who is not yoked in yoga, nor is there contemplative focus for the unyoked. Without contemplation there is no peace, and without peace, how can there be happiness?

The person who accurately knows the names of the unmanifest, the qualities, and their pure operations, is well-versed in the truth about all distinctions, freed from the body, liberated from all qualities, and enjoys absolute happiness.

There is no greater happiness than yoga.

Without giving up worldly attachments, one can never achieve true happiness. Without renunciation, one can never attain their highest good or find peace.

By overcoming sleep, fatigue, anger, joy, hunger, thirst, cold, and heat, your children always experience the happiness that is fitting for heroes.

Righteousness is the greatest good; forgiveness is the supreme peace; knowledge is the ultimate contentment; and benevolence is the only true happiness.

The mind is unable to possess the infinite, it can only be affected by it or be completely taken over by it. All it can do is blissfully surrender to the real, under the radiant presence that extends from planes of existence beyond its grasp.

I only call on Him as Mother. Let Mother do whatever She likes. I shall know Her if it is Her will; but I shall be happy to remain ignorant if She wills otherwise.

All that brings happiness in life is achieved through the grace of the company of saints. The more we attend congregations, the more our life becomes enriched with saintly qualities. Our heart begins to absorb love and humility, which are the sources of all kinds of happiness.

Contentment brings us joy and happiness, while dissatisfaction leads to disaster.

When a person makes their mind the dwelling of God, they are completely blissful.

The secret to happiness lies in letting go of worldly desires and attachments.

In just this way the individual self of the wise one dissolves into the Supreme Self. Day and night, everywhere and always, the wise one delights in that Oneness.