From The Garland of Gurus Sayings

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> Verse 309. Consciousness is the truth; Happiness is (that)

> Consciousness; the Real Self is (just this)

> Truth-Consciousness-Happiness; the sage is happy in the

> Self; the ignorant one, who is (like) a thief, does not win

> (real) happiness. (37)

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> (37) The Ignorant man

> is likened to a thief, because he wants to be happy without

> paying the proper price, namely (that of) his false ego. He

> is also rightly described as a thief because the ego is

> itself a theft from the Real Self, as pointed out in Verse

> 110. The happiness of sleep is described in one of the

> Upanishads as stolen happiness, which cannot

> last.

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> These

> quotations are from the book, Guru--Ramana--Vachana--Mala by " Who, "

> published by Sri Ramanasramam

 

 

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