“Happiness is your swarrupa [true nature], your reality. … When you go through the day, you go through various situations and you go through the vicissitudes of the day, catch yourself and see how you react to things. See how many times a day you become angry, mad, upset over something. It’s all going to change in any event, no matter what you do.

Everything must change, yet you are going along with the way things are in this world. As if the world were real. You keep forgetting it’s a dream. You keep forgetting it’s all maya [illusion]. You keep forgetting it’s God’s leela. It’s all cosmic joke. Yet you take it seriously. And I tell you, you can never awaken when you take this world seriously, it’s impossible.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)