Fwd: II:36,37 Happiness does not come from sensual experience

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" uarelove " <uarelove> wrote:

 

CHAPTER TWO, PAGES 36 & 37:

 

It is this happiness, your own nature,

 

that was experienced by you in deep sleep!

 

The reason for your happiness in deep sleep -

 

even without the aid of your mind

 

and its intruments the five senses -

 

is that happiness is your real nature;

 

in fact you yourself are happiness!!

 

Here you may ask,

 

" Are not the experiences gained during the waking state,

 

through the five senses, happiness? "

 

Scrutinize more deeply.

 

You should investigate with a keen attention

 

each one of your pleasurable experiences

 

as to what changes take place within you at that time.

 

Let us take an example.

 

Suppose you want to eat some cake;

 

as soon as this thought arises in you,

 

you start working to aquire all the necessary ingredients

 

for making that cake.

 

You prepare it and start eating it.

 

Now, happiness is experienced.

 

If you analyze how this happiness is obtained, that is,

 

if you watch the feeling of happiness

 

that rises within you while eating,

 

you will find that the thought-waves

 

which had risen out of the desire for the cake

 

- " I want some cake " -

 

and which had been raging, cease.

 

Now the thought-waves cease, but only for a while;

 

hence the happiness is also experienced only for a while.

 

Some time after the cake has been eaten,

 

the thought-waves rise up again,

 

and so the happiness disappears.

 

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