When you are immersed in Sushupthi or deep sleep, what happens to your joy and sorrow, your profits and losses? They have no reality then; nor have they any reality, later? At both times, they are but the creations of your fancy. He who knows this secret, will always exult in the Joy of Companionship with Oneself, the Contemplation of One's Own Inner Reality. That is real permanent Joy.

Therefore, listen, all Sadhakas! You, whose Real nature is Atmic! Seek to discover your true Self, your genuine Reality; attain the knowledge that You are the Atman itself; exult in the Atman alone; taste the Undiluted Incomparable Unlimited Bliss of the Awareness of the Real Self. Let Time merge in Him whose Form is Time; that is the legitimate task of Man. As taught in the Viveka Chudamani,

'Jnaana rakshaam samaadrthyaa Jnanee sudrdhavaan bhaveth
Sa eva niratham svasmin svaanandamanu-bhunjathe'

'With the amulet of Jnana around his arm, one can escape the evil influence of the vile stars called sensual attractions'. But, one should not, out of the boldness born of the consciousness of Jnana give free vent to the senses. One should be always vigilant regarding the external world: One should always be immersed in the contemplation of one's own Inner Reality. That is the sign of the knower of the Higher Truth. When one is ever in that stage, the self-illumining Truth will ever be before the mind's eye and the drisya or the objective world will melt away. If the seen or drisya world is superimposed on that undivided indivisible Brahmam it will only be as real as the turrets and bastions of a city among the clouds. Can anyone build castles on the air and live in them? The Akasa, of course, is your basic Form, or Rupa; but, for that reason, you cannot erect a city hereon. The turrets and bastions you seem to see in the clouds are unreal, baseless creations of your own fancy. So too, in the akasa-like formless Parabrahmam all this superimposed Jagath is false, baseless. Everything is but the Chaithanya of the Non-dual un-equalled bliss-pervaded Parabrahmam.