Passage 11

In English

The moral of this story is that the non-recognition or recognition of one’s own self, can be the cause of sorrow or of happiness as the case may be. Here it is also established that this happiness which we experience is one’s own form or one’s own self. The permanent bliss that one gets by the knowledge of has been described by several people by saying that is all-knowing and is above duality. is one and not two. is permanent. is unwavering. is above description and above suffering. There are different ways of describing but these words cannot undertake to tell us the form of . It is not possible for anyone to establish its form. One can only experience this for Oneself. It is not possible for others to give a description which enables another person to experience this. Here the bliss or the happiness, which can be got out of demonstration or description, will not be as good as that obtained from direct experience. Thus, knowledge of this can come only out of experience and cannot come out of reading books. There is one other example for this.