If you want Eternal Happiness

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.

If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.

If you want happiness for a month, get married.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.

If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

If you want eternal happiness Know Thyself.

Bhagavad Gita on Happiness


2.64) But the self-controlled man, moving among objects with senses under
restraint, and free from attraction and aversion, attains to tranquillity.
2.65) In tranquillity, all sorrow is destroyed. For the intellect of him, who is
tranquil-minded, is soon established in firmness.
2.66) No knowledge [of the self] has the unsteady. Nor has he meditation. To
the unmeditative there is no peace. And how can one without peace have happiness?


4.40) The ignorant, the man without shraddha, the doubting self, goes to
destruction. The doubting self has neither this world, nor the next, nor happiness.


5.21) With the heart unattached to external objects, he realizes the joy that is
in the self. With the heart devoted to the meditation of Brahman, he attains
undecaying happiness.


5.23) He who can withstand in this world, before the liberation from the body,
the impulse arising from lust and anger, he is steadfast (in yoga), he is a happy
man.
5.24) Whose happiness is within, whose relaxation is within, whose light is
within, that Yogi alone, becoming Brahman, gains absolute freedom.

14.5) Sattwa, rajas, and tamas–these gunas, O mighty-armed, born of Prakriti,
bind fast in the body the indestructible embodied one.
14.6) Of these sattwa, because of its stainlessness, luminous and free from evil,
binds, O sinless one, by attachment to happiness, and by attachment to knowledge.
14.9) Sattwa attaches to happiness, and rajas to action, O descendant of Bharata;
while tamas, verily, shrouding discrimination, attaches to miscomprehension.

Pujya Swami Tejomayananda Ji's discourse. Topic was In pursuit of Happiness.