Everything that people do in the world is done to obtain happiness. People seek power to derive happiness. They strive after money wishing to find happiness through possessions. This is all right when money is used rightly, but it leads to misery and unhappiness when bad use is made of it.

Science also seeks to promote happiness. Inventions are made for the happiness of others, and can be so, if used rightly. But when used for the wrong purposes, they lead only to greater unhappiness and misery. For example, if airplanes are put to use for war, they bring death and destruction.

So what matters is happiness, since everybody seeks to be happy. When we gain God, permanent happiness is gained. Happiness based on self-forgetfulness alone leads to permanent happiness – to God. When one loses the self in making others happy, one attains real happiness, which is God. All other forms of happiness are fleeting and changeable.

This real happiness must be very strong to enable one to support all the suffering that comes to one, or like that which I have to bear.