Mandukya_Upanishad

ānanda, swallow ānanda, consume ānanda and exist asānanda. And, the Bliss of Pure Being is known as ānanda.This is what you enjoy in deep sleep. And when you get upfrom sleep, with what refreshment you come out! Fromwhere has that energy come to you? None was there to talkto you, nobody spoke to you, no one gave you anything,you possessed nothing, there was no property, you took notonic; no nutritious food was there, and yet you came out ofsleep with strength, well refreshed, and with a readiness todo more activity. From where did you get this power, thisstrength, this energy, this ānanda, this delight? Wonderful!You cannot answer this question. When you had nothing,when you possessed nothing, how did this ānanda come toyou, and how did this power come to you? It came, nodoubt, from another source altogether, which is not of thisworld.Futile it is to run after the shadows of the world ofobjects. Foolishly you go to the things of the world whichonly tire your senses and drive you back to sleep, giving younothing, giving you false promises, tantalising you, makingyou look foolish. This is the world; and yet, again and again,do you go to the world, forgetting what you saw in the stateof sleep. We forget the sleep experience. This is the maladyof all our waking toils. If you could remember what youhad in sleep, you will never come back to this waking worldof multiplicity. If consciousness were there in sleep, youwould not like to return to this waking world. But youremain unconscious. So, you are driven back by an impulseof work, once again, to the waking world. Consciousness ofsleep is equal to samādhi. If sleep is to be coupled with89