Questioner: ...is it true that all existence is painful?
Maharaj: What else can be the cause of this universal search for pleasure? Does a happy man seek happiness? How restless people are, how constantly on the move! It is because they are in pain that they seek relief in pleasure. All the happiness they can imagine is in the assurance of repeated pleasure.
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Maharaj: What is birth and death but the beginning and the ending of a stream of events in consciousness?...we build castles in the air hoping for endless pleasure which we call happiness.
— I Am That
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