Hunting the 'I'

Book excerpt: This book presents the core of Bhagavan's teaching in a highly readable manner. With regard to why any investigation into the meaning of life might be desirable, it begins, " 'Are you happy?' When you reply with the counter question, 'What is happiness?' that means you have already observed how brittle, how transient and short-lived your so-called happiness is." Thus starts the investigation into the true nature of your Being, which is itself Happiness. There is an excellent explanation here of using the gap between sleeping and waking as an opportunity to have "one foot" in Pure Consciousness and one in wakefulness; to access the thoughtlessness of deep dreamless sleep from the recognition available in the waking state.