True. Since like forever, man has tried to make himself happy.

Its sad that most of us, tries to fulfill the emptiness in our hearts with relationships of this world and things of this world (eg. money, properties). Man devices new ways everyday to make one happy. From new gadgets, new car models and new shoe models, its an everlasting pursuit to find satisfaction.

However, it always end up failing.

Everything in this material world is passing. Although one may have a satisfactory relationship, one way or the other, this relationship will come to pass and what was once a source of happiness has now become the source of displeasure and sorrow.

In the Vedic scriptures, it has been stated many times how material things can never bring happiness and contentment. How even material relationships will only bring us sorrow in the end.

This transitory world is not our home and thus, by nature, the satisfaction of our hearts cannot be found in things of this world.

It is therefore adviced that for one to truly find hapiness, one must first seek who we really are within. Who we are? Are we these body? What is our function? If we are not this body, what is our purpose in this life then?

"For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain." - Bhagavad Gita 2:20

For we are eternal living beings, only something eternal can satisfy us. Only something we can bring in this life and in the next will make us trully happy.

This eternal, spiritual source of hapiness is what we must seek for us to be really happy, peaceful and satisfied.