Each day you gain satisfaction by doing many activities, but this is not genuine happiness. The experience of inner freedom is true joy, a joy that does not depend on anything. Each day you get involved in various things to make life more tolerable, calling that state one of pleasure.
When such activities end, however, life is once again intolerable. Know that our true identity is the Self whose nature is authentic joy. The faithful enjoy this kind of happiness, and need not do anything else to attain satisfaction, for this joy is of the Self and is beyond bodily pleasure. The body needs attention and activities for pleasure, but That, which is joy itself, needs nothing at all.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj