In English
We come to the third aspect, , or bliss. Man always wants to have bliss. In fact man is hankering after bliss. He does not want to have sorrow at any time or under any circumstances. Bliss is something natural to us. Sorrow or pain are unnatural to man. There is a small example. When a child is happy and playing, even the mother does not ask him anything nor does she question how this happiness has come about. But if the same child is crying, the mother will come running, irrespective of the importance of the work in which she is engaged. The cry of the child is something unnatural and immediately attracts the attention of the mother. If someone is happy and is enjoying himself, no one will go and ask him why he is so happy. If someone is crying, anyone who notices it would go and ask why he is crying. Sorrow is not natural to us. So, only if someone is steeped in sorrow does another person want to enquire why one is in sorrow. If you are happy, no one will come and ask you why you have not been crying in the recent past. So what is natural to us is the or bliss, and this is a strength for us. It is such bliss and happiness that has the form of our . This truth of existence or being, this awareness and this bliss constitute the in us. If we try to look for these aspects of somewhere outside of us, we will not find them; that is not the right thing to do. This aspect of is a part and parcel of our life. This aspect of has been described by as “.” All the have also been described by the words, . This means, “That is you.” This kind of identity between the supreme, or the , and the individual, or the , has been proclaimed by the . Because we have been associating this immortal aspect of with our impermanent body and not with our Self, sometimes there is a chance of our taking a wrong meaning. When we touch a pot of cold water, we feel that the pot is cold; but in fact it is not the pot that is cold. It is the water inside the pot that is cold. Coolness is a natural property of water. If there is no coolness in water, we think that there is something unusual. Many people may have gone on a pilgrimage to , and they will recall that there is a hot spring near . While large quantities of cold water are present in the river, no one asks why the water is cold but when they find some hot water in a spring, they ask in surprise how such hot water is coming. Whenever there is something unusual or contrary to the natural situation, then all kinds of doubts arise and questions are asked.