We are trying to attain happiness and peace, attainment of happiness and overcoming suffering. That is our prime motivation, whether you are doing it in a worldly sense or in a spiritual sense. At first we think that there is happiness in these activities that we do in the world outside. But this thing which will give you real happiness,. which will help you to overcome suffering is within us. How to overcome suffering. The Bhagavad Gita tells us that what you are looking for, there is a way of becoming happy, permanently deeply so, there's a way of transcending suffering.