Everything that people do in the world is done to obtain happiness. People seek power to derive happiness. They strive after money wishing to find happiness through possessions. This is all right when money is used rightly, but it leads to misery and unhappiness when bad use is made of it.
Science also seeks to promote happiness. Inventions are made for the happiness of others, and can be so, if used rightly. But when used for the wrong purposes, they lead only to greater unhappiness and misery. For example, if airplanes are put to use for war, they bring death and destruction.
So what matters is happiness, since everybody seeks to be happy. When we gain God, permanent happiness is gained. Happiness based on self-forgetfulness alone leads to permanent happiness - to God. When one loses the self in making others happy, one attains real happiness, which is God. All other forms of happiness are fleeting and changeable.
This real happiness must be very strong to enable one to support all the suffering that comes to one, or like that which I have to bear. - Meher Baba
24 July 1938, Ahmednagar, LM7 p2297
人们在世界上做的每件事都是为了获得幸福。”人们寻求权力来获得幸福。他们追求金钱，希望通过财富找到幸福。当金钱被正确地使用时，这一切都是正确的，但当使用金钱时，它会导致痛苦和不幸。
科学也寻求促进幸福。发明是为了他人的幸福而创造的，如果正确使用的话，也可以这样。但当用于错误的目的时，它们只会导致更大的不幸和痛苦。例如，如果飞机被用于战争，它们会带来死亡和毁灭。
所以，重要的是幸福，因为每个人都追求幸福。当我们获得上帝，永久的幸福就会得到。幸福建立在自我遗忘的基础上，它会给你带来永久的快乐。当一个人失去了自己，使别人幸福时，他就获得了真正的幸福，那就是上帝。所有其他形式的幸福都是转瞬即逝的。
这种真正的幸福必须非常强烈，才能使一个人能够支持所有的痛苦，或者像我所忍受的那样。
1938年7月24日，Ahmednagar,LM7 p2297
