[Advaita-l] [advaitin] ​Happiness as the nature of the self, svarUpa of mokSha.

[Ananta Chaitanya [Sarasvati]]

Namaste Subbuji,

On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 11:46 PM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Good post on Ananda. I have a question:
>
> Moksha is given the meaning: niratishaya Ananda avapti. In jivamnukti this
> experience of supreme bliss can be admitted. However, in videha mukti, in
> the absence of the mind medium to experience the svarupa ananda, does the
> stated meaning of moksha hold in Advaita? Other schools have the idea of
> being in a loka in mukti where they say ananda can be experienced as a
> certain form of individuality is maintained. In fact this is an objection
> against Advaita by them: the sukha that everyone longs for is not possible
> in the Advaita parama mukti.
>
> We might say: he is one with or is the Ananda Brahman. But the question
> remains. Does any Advaitic text address this question?
>
> Not that I know of Subbuji, but saying that AtmA is anubhavasvarUpa itself
covers it. And then we have pashyatyachakShu etc. However, Vicharasagara
says towards the end in the context of videhamukti that saguNa and nirguNa
are one and the same, so merging with saguNa or nirguNa both mean the same
thing.

Kind rgds,
--Ananta Chaitanya
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