Passage 3

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In plain words

What is a hundred times greater than this joy they called ‘the joy of Prajāpati’. The joy a hundred times greater than this joy of Prajāpati is Brahmānanda.’ The Brahmānanda Vallī is the right measuring rod for this. Such a joy, beyond man's imagining, we use in daily life as ‘brahmānandam’, ‘brahmānandam’. People say, ‘My daughter's wedding went off in Brahmānanda.’ ‘My son got his result in the examination in Brahmānanda. My son is living abroad in Brahmānanda,’ they keep saying. What is this Brahmānanda? Is it something so easy? Is it something so small? Is it something of the world? Is it something bound up with pleasures and riches? Is it something physical? No, no. This Brahmānanda is the very thing that is beyond the moral, the physical, the religious, the spiritual and the worldly. He who enjoys such Ānanda is the true Guru. Who is He? No one but God alone has the right to enjoy such Ānanda. In this Ānanda itself all joy is contained.

Supreme happiness is that which neither comes nor goes

Now, who is the second? ‘Paramasukham!’ What is this supreme happiness? This supreme happiness is higher even than all the happiness in the world. It is not physical happiness. Physical pleasures are there at one time and come to an end at another. Physical pleasures keep changing. They come and they go. Supreme happiness is that which neither comes nor goes. All physical pleasures are mere bubbles. They are like bubbles on water. At what moment will these bubbles on the water burst? Happiness that is subject to change is no true happiness. All the pleasures man enjoys in this world go on changing with time and with place. So he who enjoys that supreme happiness which does not change is the true Guru.