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

[Ananta Chaitanya [Sarasvati]]

Namaste Sudhanshuji,


On Wed, Jan 7, 2026 at 3:11 PM Sudhanshu Shekhar <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Does the illumination of existence (sat) and consciousness (chit) require
> mind? It does not. It is self-manifest. The existence and consciousness of
> mind is actually borrowed from sat/chit. Even in deep sleep, when the mind
> is merged, the sat and chit are manifest [Ananta ji, please note]. No one
> ever says that I did not exist in deep sleep. "I did not know in deep
> sleep" does not deny consciousness in deep sleep, but it demonstrates
> consciousness with ignorance as the object. [Absence of vyavhAra "I exist/I
> know" does not imply non-illumination of sat/chit, it merely demonstrates
> absence of ahamkAra which is illuminated (ajnAtatayA) by sAkshI.]
>

You have to read prAyeNa here, because the comparison is with jAgRt and
svapna manifestations. where Ananda also manifests but not as much as in
suShupti.

Kind rgds,
--Ananta Chaitanya
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