March 6, 1940
Karachi.
Dear Sister,
You have mentioned attachment and its illusion in your letter. The mind wants to be happy and so it engages in these kind of activities. Knowingly or unknowingly, all of our activities are in search of happiness. But we have not understood true happiness since we fail to distinguish and differentiate between momentary and permanent happiness. Even in worldly affairs, we leave the people that are not useful and go after the people that are beneficial to us. We see distinct advantage in doing so. Similarly we get dragged into our infatuations with worldly life and pleasures. It should be apparent to us the momentary nature of this happiness, as it is short lived. The mind, in turn, tries to find another area of happiness and keeps hopping around from one pleasure to another all the time. It does not find permanent happiness in any one particular item, thought or satisfying any of the desires. At the same time, to find permanent happiness is in the nature of human mind and there has to be a state of mind where it is achievable. Momentary happiness is no way near permanent happiness. If we have heartfelt understanding of this fact and have experienced the momentary nature of this happiness ( because worldly pleasures are momentary and you have to keep hopping from one pleasure to another constantly to maintain the pleasure ) then you can have some inclination to find true and permanent happiness.
You will understand all this, when you will have inclination and appetite to get this true and permanent happiness. One gets this inclination and inspiration at one glorious moment in life, but one either misses the moment or gets entangled into surroundings and its effects, thus effectively killing the moment. We continually go after the mirage of momentary happiness with our eyes closed.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan pagaran ( જીવન પગરણ )
Edition 3; page 61-62
PUJYA SHREE MOTA
