Pain and pleasure are the crests and valleys of the waves in the ocean of bliss. Deep down there is utter fullness.

M: Pain and pleasure are both ananda (bliss). Here I am sitting in front of you and telling you -- from my own immediate and unchanging experience -- pain and pleasure are the crests and valleys of the waves in the ocean of bliss. Deep down there is utter fullness.

 

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Excerpt from I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

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