“Yesterday I was sitting in my room, looking back over my life, and I realized that everything in the outer world that had promised great happiness had deceived me; but one thing has never deceived me—my inner peace. Indescribable billows of happiness surge over my soul. As I passed through various ex- periences over the years, that unchanging inner peace has been proof to me of the existence of God.
I was just thinking this when suddenly I saw a great Light. Everything else vanished. There was feeling—that was all. My hand was not a hand, but a feeling. When I touched my hands to- gether there was no flesh there, only feeling. Then I understood that I had become thoughts,- everything around me, the light and the room and the weight of the body—all were nothing but thoughts.
It was a delightful experience. Gone were the sorrow and sadness I had felt for things past, and in their place a great sense of freedom.
That consciousness of God-peace is never-ending. It is the only real state of happiness. Everything else will fail you. Nothing else can make you happy because only the joy of His presence is real.”
~Paramhamsa Yogananda
Man’s Eternal Quest – The dream nature of the world
Encouraging to know that forgetting self happens to the highest a few times
Bhavin