Here comes a couple of short definitions of Sat Chit Ananda from Roberto Assagioli:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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“…If one were truly immersed in the universal, one would not know
it. Someone – you will know that way of saying it, of the drop of water that is dispersed in the
shining sea. And some, I believe it was Lama Govinda, rightly criticized it. In reality, it is not so, the
drop is not dispersed in the sea. And even the Hindus, who knew all about it, spoke of Sat-Chit-
Ananda. That is to say “the blissful awareness of the supreme Reality, of the Self”.
Now, there could be no bliss there if there were not someone who is blessed. This is why I always
start from the inner experience of a living subject. And insofar as it can bear the Universal, it is the
individual who experiences bliss. I believe I have now expressed it in very precise terms. It is not
possible to lose the awareness of the Self that experiences all this. Of course, it is difficult in an
article to get to the bottom of this question. Now this could be defined as the great Paradox: and
Aurobindo talks about it, and so does Radhakrishnan in his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, and
so does Lama Govinda – so the Orientals are aware of this, not all, of course.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
From Experiences of the Self<\/em>, Assagioli Archive Florence.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n …Govinda highlighted it well: there is no contrast between individuality and universality. On the The Self, Assagioli Archive Florence.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n There is a very fine phrase, you know, Sanskrit, which brings this clearly: Sat chit ananda. So remember and use it for yourselves, Sat, Chit, Ananda. Blissful awareness of reality.
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contrary, true spiritual awareness is a wonderful synthesis of individuality and universality. And
this is expressed in the Indian formula: sat – chit – ananda: SAT means Ultimate Reality; CHIT is self-
awareness; and universal awareness gives bliss, ie ANANDA. How could there be bliss without a
in that state \u2026”<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Sat is truth; the ultimate reality. The universal, the transcendent. Chit is mental awareness
of it. And the result is ananda, bliss. You cannot have bliss if you ar not aware of it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
But awareness; self-conscious awareness. That disposes of all those fears of losing
oneself in the whole and the drop in the sea and all that. These are quite misleading
expressions. In my forthcoming book I deal much more with this, of the fusion of individual
and universal consciousness. [From Talks on the Self<\/a>]\r\n\r\n