Introduction: This shloka simply explains the state of a human being who, unaware of the happiness within, searches for it in the material world. Just as a deer mistakes a mirage for real water and chases after it, we too search for true happiness in the wrong places, not realizing it resides within us. The Place of real Happiness jalaṁ tad-udbhavaiś channaṁ hitvājño jala-kāmyayā mṛgatṛṣṇām upādhāvet tathānyatrārtha-dṛk svataḥ Synonyms jalam — water; tat-udbhavaiḥ — by grass grown from that water; channam — covered; hitvā — giving up; ajñaḥ — a foolish animal; jala-kāmyayā — desiring to drink water; mṛgatṛṣṇām — a mirage; upādhāvet — runs after; tathā — similarly; anyatra — somewhere else; artha-dṛk — self-interested; svataḥ — in himself. Translation Just as a deer, because of ignorance, cannot see the water within a well covered by grass, but runs after water elsewhere, the living entity covered by the material body does not see the happiness within himself, but runs after happiness i...