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happiness happens and disappears. Bliss is forever! Even when we are not aware of it, it is there, present is an undercurrent; one just has to dig.
And that's my whole work here, to help to dig a well within your being so that you can find the undercurrent of blissfulness.
August means sacred, sublime, exalted. Bliss is sacred, sublime, exalted. It is divine, it is godly. To know bliss is to know god; in fact god is only a name for bliss.
In India we have defined god as satchidananda. Satchidananda consists of three basic words. 'Sat' -- sat means the truth; 'chid' -- chid means consciousness; and 'anand' -- anand means bliss. When you dig deep within yourself first you will find truth, then you will find consciousness and then you will find bliss. Bliss is the deepest -- and the deepest is also the highest.
God is only a name for bliss, god is not a person. The very idea of god as a person has misled humanity. It is an experience, the experience which is beyond bodymind, the experience of that which is hidden in you and which has always been there. You need not create it; you need not search for it anywhere else, you just have to dive deep within yourself.
Sannyas means a turning in, it means exploring your interiority. I am not against the exterior -- the exterior is beautiful -- but if you don't know your interiority, if you don't know your inner world, your exterior cannot be very beautiful. It can have depth, beauty, joy, only if you are rooted within your of sources.
If a tree wants to reach high into the sky, wants to touch the stars and whisper with the clouds, then the first thing it has to do is to reach as deep into the earth with its roots, as deep as possible.
The deeper the roots, the higher the tree can rise. And the same is true about the internal and the external: the deeper the roots into the internal, the greater will be your approach into the external.
If your roots are really touching your source of bliss then your branches in the outside will have a flowering. In the past the religions have tried to create a split between the outside and the inside -- that was a reactionary attitude. Because
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