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Well, consider a man who is not only materially well-off, but is healthy, has a faithful wife and a loving family and loyal friends. Why does he seem morose so often? Why is he in such drooping spirits? Why does he complain so often of not being in the right mood:
Unhappiness, therefore, is not the result of lack of means towards gaining happiness. It is the result of man's ego which throws him off-centre and unstabilises him. He searches everywhere to satisfy his ego. It is difficult to define this ego; it defies definition. All we can say is that though it does not exist physically, it can be experienced. It is an illusion, a mirage, and man's attempts to satisfy it are like the vain attempts of the thirsty traveller in the desert to reach the mirage and slake his thirst.
To the jaundiced eye, even the pure whiteness of the moon seems yellow. So, too, the man who follows the dictates of his ego sees everything coloured through it, is deluded into the pursuit of that which is a mere chimera and which leaves him restless and discontented.
A man who has had a very modest beginning in life may become the owner of a mill. You are sure
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