If you are not contented already, you will not be

[dattaswami]

If you are not contented already, you will not be contented always
Worldly items start and end with – sorrow, they give sorrow in middle also

Satisfaction is very important – in Pravrutti (material life), if you are satisfied with
What you have already, God – always likes to give you more and more.
If you are not contented already, - you will not be contented always.
There is no use of giving more – to you since you will ask more again.
In Nivrutti, no satisfaction at all, – as you see in singing about God.
You derive continuous happiness – directly in His wonderful memory.
Why should you ask something through – devotion to get happiness?
That worldly item asked by you – is giving illusion of happiness only.
Worldly items start and end with – sorrow, they give sorrow in middle also.

A mirage never contained or will – never contain water, it has no water
Even now, the water seen by you – in the present is only an illusion.
If memory of God gives such happiness, - think about co-living with Him!
Bliss comes directly from God, - no brokerage of worldly items in middle.
Hence, pray God with the desire of God – only and not with other desires.

[Josh]

There is a margin of truth here, but there is an element in what you are saying that is in disagreement with the Judeo-Christian view of the world.

In the Bible, matter/ material/ worldy things are not considered illusions. They are real and good. Furthermore, though all things are held together by God, material things, including our own individual selves, are separate from God. God is transcendent, though all things reflect him.

God made the world and everything in it and it was made good. God delights in physicality. It is not just a trick of the brain.

Likewise, it is God's plan that we delight in physical things as well.

Similarly related, Christianity differs from the conclusions stated so simply and eloquently by Buddha's noble truths in that, in Christian faith, desire is not the enemy, nor is suffering.

Sin is the enemy. There are noble desire and there are ignoble desires. There is a suffering that leads to despair, but there is a suffering that is redeemable.

We are free to rejoice in physical things-- to celebrate them, to thankfully enjoy them. We are not to worship the physical creation, but to see how the longings that are prompted through it ultimately point us back to our Maker.