WORDS OF ANANDAMAYI MA
From ‘MA IN HER WORDS’
Unhappiness is there in the background of happiness.
The experience of the ultimate reality is a state beyond happiness and unhappiness. You consider a wet pitcher to be full of water when seen from a distance because usually a pitcher full of water looks wet. Likewise in the gesture and posture of a self-realized person, there appears an apparent state of happiness but this is not happiness.
What that state is cannot be expressed in language. After seeing which the longing for seeing goes away forever, is real seeing. After hearing which the desire for further hearing never appears, is real hearing. Verily, real darshan (witnessing the ultimate reality) is that after which the question of witnessing, not witnessing and proof of witnessing does not arise. (There is) unveiled, pure and unquestioned darshan everywhere.