Thus Spake Ramana

[Guest guest]

We are happy in deep sleep.

We remain then as the pure Self.

We are the same even now.

In such sleep there was neither the wife

nor others nor even " I. "

Now they become apparent

and give rise to pleasure or pain.

Why should not the Self,

which was blissful in deep sleep,

continue its blissful nature even now?

The sole obstruction to such continuity

is the wrong identification

of the Self with the body.

 

[from] Talks with Ramana Maharshi

[June 17th, 1936]