Impersonal happiness

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In your sleep your personality goes completely, and

you become impersonal. There is, however, a seed

of personality potentially present even in sleep, on

account of which you wake up the next morning. For

all practical purposes your personality is wiped off,

and so it is that you are very happy in sleep, indicating

thereby that impersonality is the source of happiness,

that personality is the source of sorrow. The more you

are personal, the more you are grief-stricken. The

more you become impersonal, the more you become

happy.

 

- Swami Krishnananda

 

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Facets of Spirituality

Complied by S. Bhagyalakshmi

Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1986