ANANDA
Ananda, a supreme Bliss eternal, far other and higher in its character than the
highest human joy or pleasure is the essential and 
original nature of the spirit. In Ananda our spirit will find its true self, in Ananda its essential
consciousness, in Ananda the absolute power of its existence. The embodied soul’s entry into the highest absolute,
unlimited, unconditional bliss of the spirit is the infinite liberation and the infinite perfection. It is true
that something of this bliss can be enjoyed by reflection, by a qualified descent even on the lower planes where
the Purusha plays with his modified and qualified Nature. There can be the experience of a spiritual and boundless
Ananda on the plane of matter, on the plane of life, on the plane of mind as well as on the gnostic truth-plane
of knowledge and above it. And the Yogin who enters into these lesser realisations, may find them so complete and
compelling that he will imagine there is nothing greater, nothing beyond it. For each of the divine principles
contains in itself the whole potentiality of all the other six notes of our being; each plane of Nature can have
its own perfection of these notes under its own conditions. But the integral perfection can come only by a mounting
ascent of the lowest into the highest and an incessant descent of the highest into the lowest till all becomes
one at once solid block and plastic sea-stuff of the Truth infinite and eternal.
Yoga will take the form of a seeking
after the Divine through love and delight and a seizing with joy on all the ways of his being. It will find its
acme in a perfect union of love and a perfect enjoyment of all the ways of the soul’s intimacy with God.
The Ananda descending cannot be held if there is too much sexual impurity creating
an intoxicant or degrading mixture; the Power recedes, if there is ambition, vanity or other aggressive form of
lower self...
Often a lustrous inner dawn shall come
Lighting the chambers of the slumbering mind;
A sudden bliss shall run through every limb
And Nature with a mightier Presence fill.
