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Non-Violence
Dadashri: You cannot use the word ‘the bliss of the Self’.
It refers to a very high state of being, the ultimate state. For now,
you should simply use the word ‘the non-sufferer’. By using this
word, your suffering will decrease. It will not cease immediately.
Bliss of the Self means Gnan: Knowledge itself. One is purely in
the ‘knowing’ state. The sting may hurt intensely but the Real Self
is merely the Knower of the event and does not experience any
suffering at all. That is called the Bliss of the Real Self.
Questioner: Is the reaction of, ‘the mosquito bit me’, that
follows the mosquito bite, the same reaction that is acknowledged
in the bliss of the Self?
Dadashri: Yes. He is the Knower of that too. He is the
knower of the one who says,