All Suffering is Born of Desire – Excerpts from: I AM THAT: Dialogues of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Harmony between the inner and the outer is happiness. On the other hand, self-identification with the outer causes is suffering It is the mind bewildered by wrong ideas, addicted to thinking: ‘I am this’ ‘I am that’, that fears loss and craves gain and suffers when frustrated.