Anandamayi Ma

And this cannot be provided by anything save the supreme reality itself.

then you will be carried away by the current that leads to the reality.

You will discover the more you delight in the inner life, the less you feel drawn to external things.

In consequence, the mind becomes so well nourished with the right kind of food

that at any moment the realization of its identity with the reality may occur.

There are instances when one loses consciousness while sitting in meditation.

Some people have found themselves swooning away, as it were, intoxicated with joy, remaining in this condition for quite a long time.

On emerging, they claim to have experienced some sort of divine bliss.

But this is certainly not realization.

A stage does exist in meditation where intense joy is felt, where one is as if submerged in it.

But what is it that gets submerged?

The mind, of course.

At a certain level and under certain circumstances, this experience may prove an obstacle.

If repeated time and again, one may stagnate at its particular level and thereby be prevented from getting a taste of the essence.

In the event of an experience of anything pertaining to ultimate reality or to the self, one does not say, where have I been?

I did not know anything for the time being.

There can be no such thing as not knowing.

One must be fully conscious, wide awake,

to fall into a stupor or into yogic sleep will not take one anywhere.

After genuine contemplation, worldly pleasures become unalluring, dull, entirely savourless.