You may not know this but the reason why you constantly seek something or the other is because you want to become more happy than what you are at present – which means that you always want to become full. We do not know that we are already the Aatma, which is eternally full. We think that we are limited beings. We feel that there is something missing in us.
Therefore, what do we do? We go out and buy a Lexus. We think that a Lexus is going to fill up the emptiness in us – and make us feel full. It does - but only for a few moments. Lexus brings its own unhappiness or anxiety with it. You begin to worry that someone would scratch it while it remains parked in a shopping mall. So you park it in such a way that no other car can be parked immediately next to it – by occupying two parking spots. But you cannot always get two parking spots together – and when that happens, the Lexus gives you a lot of anxiety, which is unhappiness. Very soon, the thrill of owning a Lexus melts away. Then, you go back to where you started before getting the Lexus. You now want something else. This time you think of a new thing to make you happy. You want to buy, for instance, a six bedroom house in Saratoga (California, USA). This also comes with its own anxiety.
But what you want is a happiness, a different kind of happiness than what a Lexus can give you - and which is abiding. This happiness is the absolute happiness. This absolute happiness is Aananda. It is Brahmaananda. This Aananda is fullness. If your nature is happiness, you do not become a happy person - you are already a happy person. Aatma is eternally happy - its very nature is happiness. “Aanando Brahma”. Happiness associated with the Aatma is forever; it is “Nitya”.
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