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"Everything in this world is transitory. So also worldly happiness: it comes and the next moment it is gone. If permanent, abiding happiness is to be found, that which is Eternal will have to be realized. . . The ability to dwell in his true nature, in his own Self, in his own state of Being, is potentially inherent in man. The veil of ignorance is there, yet there is also a door to knowledge. By passing through that door of knowledge man returns to his own true nature, becomes established in his own state of Being. . .

Desires and cravings make up the contents of your subtle body. Just as the scent of a flower goes and comes, such are your births and deaths. Again, from another angle of vision, there is no birth or death at all. When the physical body is dead, that subtle body with those desires and cravings floats about shelterless, and then man is born again according to his Karma. The ego or 'I-ness' which is studded with desires comes and goes, while for the Atma (Self/Soul) there is no question of coming and going. Man has a gross, a subtle and a causal body: the root-cause of the same is the Atma. Until this is realized there is birth and death. The Atma is Self-effulgent. Coming and going exist only for the individual. In order to realize your Self, you have just to remove the curtain."

 ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

(Matri Vani, Vol.II, 71,141,142)