God have bestowed the human beings with the power of knowledge and the right to act as well. Getting a human birth is not a matter of joke that one would attain it again very easily, and then would practice devotion.
The scriptures declare that one attains the body of a human being after taking thousands of births in other species.
Hence, we should utilize our human birth by practicing devotion to eliminate the darkness of ignorance, to know our actual identity and to reach our ultimate goal.
Everyone in this world wants only one thing – happiness or bliss.Day and night we endeavor to attain that bliss. We try to see, hear, smell, eat, and touch anything that brings us happiness. We search this happiness in our parents, spouse, children, house, car, bank-balance etc. But, even if we had achieved the position of Collector, Commissioner, Governor, or Prime Minister etc. we could not attain that bliss. Every one of us is in the same position of a beggar, but still we tend to fool one another saying “I want to see you happy”. The Vedas declare that No one wants anything for the pleasure of the other person, what to speak of doing something for other’s happiness. Everyone desires one’s own happiness only. We want our parents, spouse or any other accessories like eatables etc for our own happiness only.
This is the challenge of the Vedas, and there is no harm in this, that everyone is so selfish! In fact, this is the actual nature of the soul. The soul being the eternal part of the Supreme Bliss God is bound to desire for bliss. However, to attain happiness it will desire according to its own intellect. Our intellect assumes the presence of happiness, depending on the counsel of our surrounding people whom we associate with. Suppose a person searching for happiness associates with a group of drunkards. They would direct him towards the alehouse saying happiness is in wine! The innocent man tastes a little wine and gets intoxicated, thus assuming the temporary intoxication of wine to be the ultimate bliss. Similarly, another person might say that what is the point in doing a few thousands salary job, let us loot a bank and attain a huge amount of money at a stroke, thus directing him towards the evil act. This way, in search of happiness our intellect gets directed according to our associations.
However, we might possess various material assets, but still we are bereft of the supreme bliss. We might have imagined that if we get a million dollar, we would be happy; however even getting a billion dollar we didn’t achieve that happiness. Now we tend to assume that happiness might be there in trillions of dollars! Bill Gates must be very happy! Nevertheless everyone is in the same condition of a beggar. Everyone is hankering, because everyone is trying to attain butter by churning the chalky lime water, instead of churning the milk that contains the butter. The Supreme Lord, of whom we are the eternal parts, is the ocean of happiness, His another name is Bliss….
All the Vedic hymns declare that God can be called as Bliss and vice versa. He is the embodiment of Bliss.
Since we are the eternal parts of that embodiment of Bliss, it is quite natural for us to desire that Supreme Bliss. But the temporary happiness that we experience in this world is actually the illusion of Maya; it is not that Supreme happiness which we are seeking for. This only increases our sufferings.