ONLY TRUE HAPPINESS

"'Pleasant' and 'painful' are only relative terms.  From the standpoint of the person of spiritual discrimination, all experience is painful, insofar as it binds us to this world and renews our sense-cravings.  The only true happiness is in union with the Atman.  All other 'happiness' is relative, temporary, and therefore false."

--Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood commenting on The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali