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Thus, a fish feels pleasure when in water, and feels pain when outside water.
For human beings, it is exactly the reverse. For birds, it is a different kind of
medium. But for Him, His Bliss in independent of any constraint, and thus He
is of Infinite Bliss. The Anandam of everything else flows from the One and
Only source of true Anandam - SatAnandah.
The dharma cakram writer explains the concept of pErAnandam starting with
the little Anandam of the immobile (sthAvara) beings such as plants, which
derive their pleasure through the sense of touch alone. The worms derive their
pleasure through the sense of touch and taste. Slightly more evolved beings
such as the ants derive their pleasure from the sense of touch, taste, and
smell. Beings such as the bees derive their pleasure from the sense of touch,
taste, smell, and sight. The animals derive their pleasure from the additional
sense of hearing. Man derives his pleasure from the mind in addition. Yet
ordinary people seek cheap material pleasures with all these gifts, and end up
enjoying the impermanent pleasures, just as the fish enjoys its sense of taste
and falls prey to the fisherman's hook. Only a true yogi reaches the next
level, that of AtmAnandam. This nAma should teach us to meditate of on the
"SatAnanda" mantra on Him, and derive the permanent Anandam.
nAma 624. niNd> nandih
He who is ever delighted.
nandaye namah.
nandati iti nandih - He who is delighted is nandih.
SrI BhaTTar: He is nandi because He is ever prosperous by virtue of His being
with SrI at all times, at all places, and in all ways. His constant and inseparable
association with SrI is the reason for His constant delight.
SrI Samkara: paramAnanda vigraho nandih - One who is the embodiment of
Supreme Bliss.
SrI rAdhAkRshNa SAstri: His Anandam is such that the humans and the
deva-scan look to Him to derive the true Anandam - He is the Bestower of
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