What is the true nature of bliss, and why is it important to understand where it comes from? Bhagawan lovingly reminds us today.

Every human being is an embodiment, repository, and vehicle of ananda (bliss). The awareness of this ananda is the goal of man, the consummation of human life. But, man seeks pleasure and happiness from objects through the senses and attains the low material ananda, not the supreme ananda he ought to win. It must be said that the ananda attained through the objective world or through subjective means is only a fractional expression of the ananda which the mergence in Brahman (Supreme Reality) grants. We speak of hot water, though heat is not a quality of water; fire has given it the heat. So too, objective ananda or subjective ananda is rendered so, through the grace of Brahmanandam (Supreme Divine Bliss). Man prides himself that he has earned ananda himself by his effort. It is sugar that makes the bland globules of flour into sweet laddus. The stars are proud that they shed light on a darkened world but the bright moonlight renders starlight too faint to be noticed. The moon’s pride too, is humbled when the sun illumines the sky. Brahmananda is the Sun. This does not mean that one should ignore starlight and moonlight or Vishaya ananda and Vidya ananda — the bliss derived from nature and from spiritual experiential knowledge. They are steps, stages, samples. While valuing them as such, the goal of Brahmananda has to be relentlessly pursued.