Bliss or happiness is the form of Ātman. Ātman and Bliss are not two but just one. There is no inherent happiness in the objects of the world. The jīva, out of ignorance, assumes that it comes from the objects. The musk deer carries the fragrant musk within itself. Unaware of this and assuming that it emanates from a source outside of itself, it wanders all over searching for it. Until the jīva knows that his own essential nature is matchless bliss he will, like the musk deer, be confused and misled. (Commentary on Anuvāda Nūnmālai, pp. 369-370)
As you would not bark back at a dog, do not waste your time arguing with people.
It is well to remember that the search for pleasure invariably leads to pain.
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Materialistic or spiritual, it is according to your outlook. Drishtim jnanamayim kritva, Brahma mayam pasyet jagat. Make your outlook right. The Creator knows how to take care of His Creation. (Ramana Maharshi)
Young Prahlad says to Narasimha Avatar of Lord Vishnu - You, the Lord of entire creation, are always all-fulfilled by virtue of your own nature and glory, and hence do not need any adoration, praise or offering from any one. Those who praise and make offerings to you, do so out of their own ignorance. And you seem to accept all this solely because of your own mercy. Whatever praise, worship or adoration is showered on you, all that conduces to the worshipper's own development, as is the case with the anointment done to the reflected face on oneself, whom the mirror reflects.We know nothing about the past or the yugas which were in the past. Nor do we know about the future. But we know the present exists. Let us know about it first. Then all other doubts will cease... Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us during sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists. How will it benefit us to know that the kaliyuga started in such and such a year and that it would end so many years after now? (Sri Ramana Maharshi)