We are all searching for happiness. To be happy is our natural condition, but we do not know what real happiness is. True happiness cannot be found in material things. Everything in the material world is temporary. Relationships, clothes, food, money, jobs etc.. Eating your favorite meal is only a temporary flash of happiness on your tongue. Your new car only brings you happiness in the first few weeks and then becomes old news after awhile. This is true of all material objects.

True happiness is when we fix our senses on spiritual activities, such as prayer, reflecting on who we are and what our purpose is and rekindling our loving relationship with God. These are activities that are beyond the material realm. When one starts on his or her spiritual journey, first realizing that he is not his body, and truly puts effort into asking these deeper questions and seeking out the answers, one will begin to find true everlasting happiness, which is the natural state of the soul.

BG Ch. 2 text 66

“One who is not in transcendental consciousness can have neither a controlled mind nor steady intelligence, without which there is no possibility of peace. And how can there be any happiness without peace?”