In the Upanishads there is a question, “What do human beings want?” The answer is that we want happiness. Everything we do, we do for the sake of happiness. We seek that happiness through our work, through our friends and family, through art and science, through food, drink and entertainment. For happiness we perform all the…

— Gurudevi Nirmalananda

From Gurudevi’s full discourse “I Gave My Life to God“