"Logically you can ask him, 'What is death? – because you have been experiencing death for thirty-three years – how long will you take to define it?' The dead man cannot answer; he is not there.

"I am also not here – I am a dead man.

"This is the nature of bliss.

"As it enters in you, you are no more there.

"Both cannot exist together. The coexistence of the ego and bliss is absolutely impossible; only one can exist. It is like darkness and light. You cannot manage some kind of coexistence between darkness and light.

"In the East we have the story that darkness appeared before God with tears in her eyes and complained against the sun: 'I have not done anything against your sun. I am not even acquainted with him, we have never met; still he goes on harassing me. Wherever I go he reaches me sooner or later, and I am constantly on the run. Now I am really tired, and I want you to do something about it. Why is he after me?'

"God called the sun and asked him, 'Why are you after darkness? What wrong has she done to you?'

"The sun said, 'Who is darkness? I have never met her. I would like to be introduced.'

"God looked around to where darkness had been standing but nobody was there. Since then God has been trying to arrange some kind of meeting, a roundtable conference, some kind of mediation, negotiation. But although all the religions say that God is all-powerful, in this case he has failed. He has not been able to bring the light, the sun, in front of darkness; only one appears at a time.

"The reason is very simple: darkness has no existence of its own. It is only the absence of light. When the light is present, how can its absence also be there? That absence is possible only when light is absent. This case is going to remain eternally on file, undecided. This story is really significant. It says something about you and bliss.

"The ego is nothing but the absence of blissfulness.

"The more egoistic a person is, the more in anguish, in suffering, in misery, in darkness he is."