If you want ever lasting happiness

Here is a famous Chinese proverb: 

If you want happiness for an hour- take a nap,

If you want happiness for a day- go on a shopping spree,

If you want happiness for a month- go on a honeymoon,

If you want happiness for a year- inherit a fortune,

If you want happiness for a lifetime– help someone,

If you want eternal happiness – know yourself.

How true ! The worldly happiness like taking a nap or going on a shopping spree for buying luxuries of physical comfort or even the happiness associated with honeymoon is only momentary, short lasting and incomplete. Because you have given so much importance to money and wealth, and it is deep rooted in you that money can bring you long lasting happiness, you might be able to extend that worldly happiness to as long as a year if you inherit a fortune. But if you truly want to have a glimpse of inner satisfaction, peace and complete happiness, then help someone selflessly. When you help someone, the Divinity within smiles at you, which is manifested in your heart as true happiness.

Our Rishi, Muni and Yogis experienced even higher form of eternal ever-lasting happiness by diving within and by knowing our own True Self. That is what Spirituality and Yoga is all about. The art of knowing the Self is described in the words of deep wisdom embedded in Vedas, Upnishads, other holy scriptures and the words of Saints. The goal of human life is to experience that truly blissful moments of eternal happiness associated with the knowledge of Self and thereby kindling the true devotion for the Supreme Parmatma. Every living being seeks happiness, but the true Seeker realize the importance of eternal happiness and hence, seek that Supreme goal of life.