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(anand). But that bliss does not reach you, it becomes falsely projected. And how do you use that bliss? You do not believe that that bliss is coming from within you and that is why you say that you got the pleasure from this jalebi (dessert). You do this false projection of the source of pleasure and that is why you say that you find pleasure in the jalebi. But it does not come from the jalebi; it comes from within you, that is being projected.
Therefore, nothing can give bliss (anand), there is no bliss in gold or anything else. If there were bliss in gold, if you made a mattress out if it, would you be able to sleep well on it?
Questioner: No, you would not.
Dadashri: Therefore, happiness (anand) does not lie in gold. We create this happiness (anand) from imagination (kalpana), thinking there is joy (anand) in this and there is enjoyment in that; so it appears that way. Thus the fundamental (muda) real happiness is forfeited. For ‘us’, it is the true, direct bliss (anand) that 'we' experience. 'We' constantly dwell in the true bliss; that bliss is the very nature of the Self (swabhavik), which is natural and one's own. And all this bliss (anand) is imaginary (kalpit), and this happiness and pleasure (sukh) is imaginary. And even unhappiness (dukh) is imaginary (kalpit). Worship of the Nature of the Self Procures
Bliss of the Self
That is why 'we' separated the Atma, so that you can enter into your own natural bliss (swabhavik sukh). Thereafter, you do not have worries or anxiety. Because why do you have worries? You have them because you say, 'I am Chandubhai' and “I am the one doing this' – that is why you have worries! Is man capable of doing anything? Is he doing it or, ‘it just happens'?
