The Musk deer runs frantically in its search for the fragrance that fascinates it. When at last, it is too exhausted to continue, it discovers that the source of that fragrance has been within its own self all along! So too, man searches in vain for ananda in the out side world, only to realise in the end that it has been within his own Self! (Saiclopedia, p. 28)

Students! You have to realise your true strength and potentialities. Take, for instance, an elephant. It is a very powerful animal. But a mall man with a goad is able to control it. The bee can bore a hole through any hard object. It is unaware of its own strength. Man has bliss and divinity within him, but makes no effort to realise them. Men are like the musk-deer, which has the musk in its own navel, but searches for the source of its fragrant smell everywhere. When it is exhausted by the search and discovers that the musk is in its navel, it laments over its folly.

Man behaves in the same way. He has within him, Nityananda (perennial bliss), Brahmananda (Divine bliss) and Atmananda (bliss of the Spirit). They are verily his nature and form. But, being caught up in external worldly pleasures, he fails to realise this truth. He is unable to make the search or experience the bliss. His Atma is always indicating the various paths to the experiencing of spiritual bliss, which is untainted by grief. When the source of this bliss is within you, why are you caught up in worldly concerns which are the cause of sorrow? (SSS Vol.23, pp. 170-171)