Naturally, everyone wants to be happy. This is because happiness is the genuine state of the living being. We want to be happy because the spirit soul is sat-chit-ananda: eternal, and full of knowledge and bliss. So that is what everyone naturally wants to feel. Even while covered by a material form, one will automatically try to reach this normal state of consciousness through varieties of enjoyment, even if they are misdirected in the aim of life. However, in order to accept living in the material world and various levels of material or bodily enjoyment, the living entity must forget his real identity and natural state of spiritual bliss. If we could fully remember our spiritual happiness, all forms of pleasure of the body would immediately become insignificant. They would have no practical meaning. Therefore, one of the first conditions of the materialistically inclined living being is that he forgets his real identity. Such a person does not realize that matter is an inferior energy and is incompatible for his true happiness. He may think that working hard to take care of this body and all of its demands is the normal state of affairs. However, he forgets that spirit is a finer state of existence and full of bliss, and the strata in which exists the real consciousness of the living entity. It is his natural state of being. Therefore, whether one realizes it or not, this is the level of happiness for which everyone is always hankering, which exists in the spiritual atmosphere.
