How can we find happiness from inside?

Shri Soumyadip Mondal asked: How can we find happiness from inside? How can we be happy with what we have? By Soumyadip Mondal

Swami replied:- People say that happiness is inside. I don’t believe this. Inside means the soul that is travelling through several births in this world. The soul collects both misery and happiness from the world based on its cycle of deeds. Hence, happiness does not exist inside. Of course, outside always contains both misery and happiness. Hence, neither can you  get happiness from inside nor from outside. You can get happiness from God only. God is said to be an ocean of infinite bliss. If you go near the seashore, you will get cool breeze. Similarly, if you become close to God you will get happiness, which is the breeze coming over the ocean of bliss. If you realize that nothing earned by you will follow you when you leave this world, this simple logic will make you always contented with whatever you get. The facilities in this world are like facilities in a journey. The spiritual efforts are like the efforts put up for the interview that takes place after the journey. The efforts for the interview are more important than the facilities in the journey because the results of the interview are always permanent and the facilities in the journey are always temporary.