all of us are looking for peace and happiness, but in our search for happiness, where does our attention normally turn? It turns towards the phenomena of the creation and its material objects. Through these, he says, none of us have ever attained lasting peace and happiness, nor will we ever do so.
             He explains that these images and forms are temporary and perishable, and therefore the pleasure and contentment derived from them is also temporary and short-lived. With the passage of time, whatever happiness we experience will surely be transformed into pain.
             The Lord has shaped this world from pain and pleasure. No one has experienced only pain and misery, without enjoying the respite of at least a few moments of happiness. Just as no one has experienced only happiness, without having to face pain.
             Whatever happiness or sufferings we experience are the result of our good or bad deeds committed in previous lives. We are each given a human life according to the way our good and bad actions combine, and while living that life we must settle the accounts of both. When we account for good deeds we are happy, while accounting for bad deeds, we are miserable. Those people who have more good deeds and less sins to their credit will appear to be happy people, and will be seen to suffer less. Those who carry a much greater load of negative actions, and a smaller load of good deeds, will suffer more, and experience less happiness. However, every person will most certainly have to undergo suffering as well as joy.
             if you wish to attain happiness, if you wish to find contentment, then you must return to your own origin. Just think, for example, of people who have been given everything by the Lord; good health, respect, wealth, prosperity and a good life partner. He has not withheld anything from them, yet when they sit quietly on their own, they still do not have peace of mind or feel content. They may not even know what they are lacking.
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