In English
's teaching on self-realisation
, before he attained (Self-realisation), summoned his step-brother to his side to impart his last message. was in tears. told him: “! It was for realising this blissful state that I had striven all these years. Why do you shed tears at this moment? How many are able to secure such bliss? Few at all. You are looking only at my earthly body. You cannot know the internal bliss I am experiencing at this moment. I suffered a great deal over the past thirty years because of the aberrations of my mind. It was the mind that stood between me and Self-realisation. Today I am free from the hold of my mind. That is the cause of my bliss. When the mind is absent there is bliss." This was the lesson taught to . prayed to to confer on him a similar mind-less state.