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Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
nature. We implore the Master’s help in all humility and helplessness for deliverance from this abject slavery. Further the Master is clearly exhorting us not to stop at achieving happiness but aim at states of consciousness far beyond bliss. It will also be clear to the discerning thinker and seeker that true nature of happiness is not revealed to us through a blind satisfaction of desires ranging from the crudest of the carnal variety or the noblest of them. Though this sheath is active in waking, dream and deep sleep states there is a measure of ignorance in it. Thus we do not get the knowledge of the nature of the Real Self during deep sleep when this sheath is fully active. The sheath displays itself in three modes through the vrittis of Priya or the happiness arising in one out of the mere sight of a desired object, Moda, the happiness felt when he is in possession of the object and Pramoda, the happiness experienced in its actual enjoyment.
It has been held in the tradition that the bliss sheath which is transcendental is beyond ordinary human experience and only a very few individuals who have thoroughly restrained the senses, mind and buddhi are capable of experiencing it as it is beyond the sensory and mental fields. But all the practicants of the Natural Path are enabled to enter into this body and feel happiness during their meditations through the divine influx of Pranahuti for which they are grateful and greatly indebted to the Divine Master. We also may note in this context that the above imperience is possible only because Prana is of the nature of happiness.
The pursuit of happiness through the fulfillment of desires is however fraught with rather disastrous consequences to the unwary traveler on the slippery path of spiritual ascent. This has been graphically portrayed in the 2nd Chapter of the Gita as an uncontrolled catastrophic
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