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This self, the Vedic sages tell us, is joyful by its very nature. It need not seek joy outside itself, because it is practically made of joy, and not joy that comes and goes like vapor but joy that endures, the way sunlight stays forever with the sun.

One who realizes this self, who identifies with the “self within himself,” at once becomes joyful, the Bhagavad-gītā says. And so such a person has nothing to desire and nothing over which to lament. He is equal in all circumstances, and so he dedicates himself not to pursuing material enjoyment but to reviving his relationship with the Supreme Self, or God, the complete eternal whole of whom he realizes himself to be a small eternal part. Thus he enters the world of bhakti, the world of eternal happiness and knowledge in the service of the Supreme.