Frustration and Love can't exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect.

Intellectuals cannot find the bottom (base) of the faith. It is not possible to do both together, to remain afloat and (also) measure the ocean depth at the same time.

Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).

Depression arises when one uses his power and authority. Whatever authority there is, it is there for giving happiness to others. Authority is to give happiness to others, even to those who are guilty of doing wrong.

Pleasure is —suffering' (vedna) and pain is distress as well. If pleasure is —suffering', it cannot be considered a pleasure. If pleasure is enjoyed excessively, it becomes —suffering'. How can it be considered a pleasure? These are all entanglements of those living in illusion [of the Self]. To live in the ocean of happiness and yet no dislike arises; that is known as true happiness.

Things do not give unhappiness, ignorance (of one's real Self) does.

If someone says, the Gnani Purush is happy in the 'Real' but happy or unhappy in the 'relative', then I would say, No, the Gnani Purush Knows the 'relative' as being the 'relative', and therefore He is happy in the relative as well.

The law of nature is such that everyone gets happiness according to their needs. The —tender' that everyone (of us) fills out, is indeed fulfilled.

The —egoism' that is used to hurt others will hurt one's own self. The —egoism' that is used to give happiness to others becomes cause for his own happiness.

There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness.

The path of spirituality is a path where one has to keep on reducing his wishes for worldly happiness, as one moves on the path ahead. And ultimately there, natural and spontaneous bliss of the Self will arise. Your own true happiness, eternal happiness will arise.

If you like happiness, then worship that wherein happiness is inherent. Happiness is in God. God is an abode of infinite bliss. If you worship the inanimate (the non-Self, [Jad]), then you will have pain because there is only pain in the inanimate.

A person who thinks he is right, causes great hurt to others and that is why hurt will come to him. A person who believes —I am right', causes a lot of pain to others.

Happiness is a spiritual dimension; therefore its source should also be spiritual, not material.

Many people suffer great miseries but if you ask them in front of others, 'you went through great difficulty, didn't you?', then they will respond, 'no, no I didn't have any suffering'. Then they feel happy. So what kind of —egoism' should one do? During times of sorrow, one should do the —egoism' of happiness such that 'no one is happier than I!' People in general do the —egoism' of sorrow at the time of happiness.

Charity (Daan) means to make another living being happy, whether it is a human being or some animals, giving happiness to them, that is what is called Charity. When you give happiness to everyone, happiness will indeed come to you in its —reaction'. If you give happiness then you immediately receive happiness just sitting at home.

One who experiences prasantta [blissful happiness] within, he will have prasantta [blissful happiness] externally. The mind is a mirror (reflection) for the external.

Jalebi (dessert) makes tea taste bland [tasteless]. Similarly, when one tastes the happiness of the Self, it makes worldly happiness bland. One cannot break free from the worldly life until one finds worldly happiness bland.

Without the 'applied awareness' of the Soul, 'happiness' cannot arise.

When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.