Duniya - Jise Kehte Hai

Is this world of objects/beings a source of our happiness/sorrow? How can our intellect accept that there is no happiness or sorrow in the world, when we do experience them as it were. If any object itself contains happiness/sorrow, then everyone should get them from it. Also, that happiness should be permanent, and undiminishing and same to all. But is this so? I read an interesting philosophical example on this from a book by Jagatguru Krupalu Maharaj. A man suddenly died. On hearing this news, his wife fainted due to overpowering sorrow. His son cried bitterly. His friend shed a few tears. His servant did not cry, but was sad. His neighbour felt bad, but experienced neither sorrow nor shock. He continued doing his work. A dishonest debtor experienced a feeling of relief internally, some unshowable happiness. If this man was to come back to life, then all the above would experience the same degree of opposite feelings - sorrow, indifference, happiness. The varied degree of these feelings experienced were not, then, caused by that person dying or coming back to life, but was proportional to each one's assumed or expected happiness from their relationship with him depending on the extent their own desires were fulfilled through him. Thus, a person experiences joy, sorrow from the world (objects, beings) that he himself mentally ascribes to, but he naively concludes that it is the object or person himself that contains that joy or sorrow. Besides this, the happiness we experience from any worldly object/person/food, etc follows the Law of diminishing returns, eventually leading the sorrow or sickness from the same object for example overdose of chocolates. When we attain the desired object, there is an experience of momentary happiness, but it is followed by greed to attain more eg more attention, more love, more obedience, together with the fear of losing it, and a lot of pain on eventually losing it. And when we don't attain the desired object, there is anger, depression. 

Our attachment or aversion to the world is the cause of our joy/sorrow, not the world itself which in fact meticulously functions as per the ordained laws. And this attachment/aversion is also a conditioning we acquire due to repeated thought that this person or this object is the source of my joy/sorrow. This is the delusion, and the law of delusion is that the one who is deluded can never realise that he is deluded. It is here that we need a Guru and His Grace, Satsangh and Swadhyay, contemplation and meditation. But most of us today have an allergy for any form of Satsangh and have no time nor feel any need for it. There in lies the root of our sorrow and pain, and not in the world.