Because we are eternal living beings, we are looking for a source of happiness that will last and will stay with us. Everyone knows the saying “And they lived happily ever after.” To be happy eternally is a spiritual longing that we all have inside ourselves so we are very attracted by this saying. However, in this material world we cannot fulfill this spiritual longing. No one can live happily ever after here because everything comes to an end sooner or later. But the fact that we do have this very strong longing for eternal love and happiness proves that this must exist somewhere.
Our natural condition is to experience spiritual happiness and to be satisfied within. This is why it feels completely unnatural and wrong for us to be unhappy or depressed. We automatically try to get away from suffering, but we don’t really know how to get back to our natural condition. We are always yearning for happiness and spiritual love. We don’t only crave it, we need it.
Yet how can we again come to the condition where we experience an inner happiness that will be there even during the ups and downs that we will encounter while we are in this temporary world?