EXPERIENCE OF HAPPINESS IN DEEP SLEEP – AN ANALOGY

Suppose a bucket is lost in a deep well, and you dive down to the bottom to make a search. You touch the bucket there at the bottom, and come up to the surface. Coming out of the water, you say you found the bucket. But the bucket was really found while you were under the water, where there was no medium to express that experience. Similarly, Happiness was experienced in deep sleep, but you get hold of a medium to express that experience only after coming to the waking state.Experience is always beyond the mind. The personal ‘I’ knows it only when the ‘I’comes to that realm of the mind. Still others come to know it when you give it a gross form by putting it into words. But the experience was clearly beyond the mind.

Sri Atmananda Krishna Menon