This implies that supreme bliss is achieved by maintaining evenness of temper—practising equanimity in all actions—without being attached to or instrumental in making those actions bear fruit.
Additionally, there is enjoyment derived from practices such as adoration, meditation, and similar spiritual pursuits, through which the end of sorrow may be achieved.
[4] According to the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy, Ānanda is the state of sublime delight achieved when the Jiva—the individual empirical self—becomes free from all sins, doubts, desires, actions, pains, and suffering, as well as from ordinary physical and mental pleasures.
Once established in Brahman—the eternal Universal Self and the subtle essence underlying all existence—the Jiva attains the state of Jivanmukta, or liberation.
[5] The sage of the Rigveda, in Sukta 10.109, reminds us that "speech," in its undifferentiated state, serves no purpose in performing yagnas meant to invoke the gods, who were among the first-born.
There is nothing beyond this Supreme Reality, for, as Adi Shankara explains: "The constituents that spring from ignorance leave no remnant after their dissolution through knowledge.
[11] Adi Shankara, in his commentary on Brahma Sutra III.iii.41, explains that when Vamadeva realised the Self as That (Brahman), he declared, "I was Manu and the sun."
The liberated soul, "established in Infinity, delights in its own Self and disports in its own Self" (Chandogya Upanishad VII.xxv.2), In this highest state, which the knowers of Brahman describe as the ultimate, the five senses of knowledge, along with the mind, cease their functions.
[13] Rishi Bandhvaduya Gopayanah (Rigveda 10.60.8) reminds us that the mind remains bound to the Jivatman not for the destruction of Prana and its associated aspects, but for their preservation, as life depends on them.
The annihilation of the mind occurs when it is directed to focus on the Self, with the purpose of transcending the entire objective universe.
This pursuit aims to realise the identity of the Jiva and Brahman, leading to self-realisation and the simultaneous experience of eternal bliss—Paramananda.