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  1. Swami Shailendra Saraswati
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    2020-11-03T10:55:40+05:30
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    The mystics have defined the ultimate truth as Satchitanand. Sat means truth, Chit means consciousness, and Anand means bliss. When we enter into the world of reality, first we encounter truth, next we encounter consciousness. Truth melts into consciousness; it becomes our consciousness. It is no more separate from us; it is we. It is no more our truth; it is we. It becomes consciousness; it becomes subjective, subjectivity.

    When we still go deeper, then the third and the ultimate layer is touched. Then consciousness is no more just consciousness. It is full of bliss, not only full but overflowing. Bliss is the ultimate experience of God.

    We have to learn how to be happy, to respect happy people and pay more attention to happy people. We must be happy, respect happiness, and help people to understand that happiness is the goal of life — SATCHITANAND. Whenever we see a blissful person, we should respect him, he is holy.

    The moment happiness is coming from the inner center and going out, it goes on expanding; and one lives in bliss. Now we are the source. This bliss cannot be destroyed. This bliss cannot be taken back.

    Bliss is unrelated to anyone; bliss is not produced by any cause; it is not causal. It is not in a particular situation; it is not related at all to anything else other than us. We have known only causal happiness. And because of this causal happiness, misery comes as a shadow, always behind it, waiting for its moment. But we have to know inner source of happiness. That source is our being. And coming from that source cannot be taken from us and cannot be destroyed.

    Bliss is possible this very moment, but infinite patience is needed. It is our impatience that functions as a barrier; it is our hurry that does not allow us to relax. And without relaxing, without going into a deep let-go, we cannot contact our own inner source and that’s where bliss is.

    Bliss is not something outside us that we can achieve: it is something inside us that we have forgotten. One has to go deeper and deeper into oneself. But the hurried mind cannot dive deep; it can only swim, thrash, on the surface; it can only rush hither and thither. Because it is constantly in a rush it is never in the moment. Our mind is constantly hijacking us from the present moment — either into the past or into the future, but it never allows us to be now, to be here.

    The moment we are centered in our being, rooted in our being, we become full of bliss, full of Sat, Chit and Ananda.

    — Swami Shailendra Saraswati

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