Page 161 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 7

BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 7
Some ask us to do this and do that and say that desires would be satisfied and add that we would get the desired objects and become happy. People holding these views regard happiness as satisfaction of desires and unhappiness as denial thereof. In this context we know that first of all, it is not possible to satisfy all of one's desires because there are countless desires of countless people and the material things are limited. Then new desires arise as soon as the previous ones are satisfied. Thus the eternal current of desires continues for ever. It is, therefore, definite that ever changing desires can never be satisfied. Conceptions like those of satisfaction of desires and achieving consequent happiness are mere mirage in the great desert of life. All the desires are never going to be satisfied and this creature is never going to be happy in the satisfaction of desires.
In reality happiness does not lie in the satisfaction of desires. It is like being happy by transferring the burden of head to the shoulder. It is also not correct to say that we will be happy
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