Happiness through Self

Indiscriminate contact with sense objects involve a lot of pain and strain while yielding little or no happiness. True happiness does not lie in the world outside.It is found in the Self within through mental detachment from the world. The process of finding mental happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else. The 3 Yogas karma, bhakti, jnana reduce the desires that veil your Divine Self

Swami Parthsarathy Ch 5 v 21

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