Swami Sivananda Vani

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The Object of Philosophic Search

 

Know what you seek, and then seek. What you pursue here fails to give

you what you truly seek and recedes like a mirage. Nothing on earth

can give you everlasting happiness. Youth fades like the evening

flowers, strength vanishes like the rent cloud; the beauty of the body

quickly gives way to the ugly death. Your pleasure centres mock at

you, for you have mistaken pain for happiness, mirage for water! The

real object that you seek, the one treasure without which you are

restless is the realisation of the imperishable bliss of Godhead

within.