Sri Atmananda Krishna Menon

As soon as we wake up from deep sleep, the existence of a ready-made world, including our own bodies, confronts us.

There is no ignorance in deep sleep.

Happiness alone is the positive experience in deep sleep.

And the sense of nothingness is a relative inference when out of it.

Thus there is in fact no ignorance in deep sleep.

Thus happiness alone is the experience in deep sleep.

The experience in deep sleep, if properly understood, is only one, and that is our own self, which is happiness and peace.

there really isn't anything for you to do to get out of suffering.

The wisdom that the suffering doesn't belong to you will itself get you out of suffering without you having to do anything.

That is all

If you have to do anything, if you have to remove it by effort, then the suffering will not leave you

Suffering lifts in the resistance of it and the effort in sub-becoming its fuel.

No effort is needed because the wisdom

But the realization shows you that you are not suffering.

So you can never suffer.

How can the truth, the true reality, suffer?

How can the realization and the wisdom suffer?

True realization doesn't come and go.

And true wisdom doesn't come and go either.

It's always there