Happiness

D.: What is that higher happiness?        
M.: To be free from anxieties. Possessions create anxieties such as their safeguarding, their utilisation, etc. Non-possession does not bring any anxieties in its train. Therefore Siva resigned everything in favour of Vishnu and He himself went away happy. Divestment of possessions is the highest happiness.

Sadhu Arunachala (2010-07-01). Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi