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veetaragata, there is bliss. The various alternatives of sorrow are all generated out of attachment etc. Where there are attachment etc., there is anxiety, where there is anxiety there is sorrow. Therefore, only in a state free of attachment there is bliss.
Likewise, until now the pleasures generated from the senses were mistaken for happiness. But there is no bliss in them. It is the tendency of attachment etc. to absorb passions through the feelings of avarice. All the joys with which attachment and aversion are attached, are ultimately only sorrow. Therefore, only extra-sensory happiness is happiness, in which there are no expectations of any external influences. It is an absolutely free happiness. Happiness is in the form of the pure transformation that has emanated from the original natural disposition of the atma. That is why spiritual joy has been termed as nijananda. Only those great souls who have realised the self can experience this joy. That is when they know that in every space of the atma there is infinite happiness. In innumerable spaces there is infinite bliss lying about. The entire atma is filled with joy in all ways. That is why atma is 'sukhadham'.
Thus, in each of the spaces in the atma, infinite purity, infinite knowledge, infinite life energy, infinite light and infinite bliss are manifest together and at the same time.
Gurudev says, 'O disciple! Such is the unthinkable glory of Atmadeva! I reach the limits of my energy in trying to describe this infinite! What more can I tell you? Whatever and how much ever could be said, I have told you. Now it is up to you to think and achieve it. Awaken the pure effects of your atma. Go deep with thinking, into the original form of atma that has been described to you. Awaken divine thoughts in your inner self.'
The power to think is a great power. With the help of this power, is possible to reach the deep bottom of the atma. It is possible to touch the power of the infinite knowledge of the atma,
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