• It is a basic human need that everyone wants to live a happy life. For this, one has to experience real happiness. The so-called happiness that one experiences by having money, power, and indulging in sensual pleasures is not real happiness. It is very fragile, unstable and fleeting. For real happiness, for lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and get rid of all the unhappiness stored in the deeper levels of the mind. As long as there is misery at the depth of the mind all attempts to feel happy at the surface level of the mind prove futile.

    S. N. Goenka: It is a basic human need that everyone wants to
 live a happy life. For this, one has to experience
 real happiness. The so-called happiness that one
 experiences by having money, power, and
 indulging in sensual pleasures is not real
 happiness. It is very fragile, unstable and fleeting.
 For real happiness, for lasting stable happiness,
 one has to make a journey deep within oneself and
 get rid of all the unhappiness stored in the deeper
 levels of the mind. As long as there is misery at
 the depth of the mind all attempts to feel happy
 at the surface level of the mind prove futile.
    S. N. Goenka (2012). “Meditation Now: Inner Peace through Inner Wisdom”, p.42, Pariyatti Publishing