The ananda or bliss we get when hunger is appeased by a meal is short-lived. Hunger afflicts us again before long. However sweet and tasty the food may be, it causes nausea when consumed in big quantities. The mythological bird Chakora is said to feed on moonlight only, but we can be sure an excess of even that will certainly be unwelcome to it. Even nectar will cloy when one continues to eat it endlessly. Brahmananda (Supreme Divine Bliss), however, is different. For, it is native to man, his very source and sustenance. The purpose of human striving, through stage after stage of spiritual progress, is to attain that. A fish placed in an artistic golden gem-studded bowl is miserable. It has no ananda, for it has no water. Water is its home, its real source and sustenance. Man too must reach his original home, however far he may wander. – Divine Discourse, Nov 23, 1983.