"You ask how one can experience atmananda if the mind is destroyed. To realize jnana, there is no need of another jnana, or knowledge. There is no need to light a matchstick to see the radiance of the sun! Now a curtain is surrounding the natural principle of the soul. The goal of all kinds of spiritual practice is to eliminate this dark screen, this screen of maya, the selfish curtain comprised of 'me,' 'mine' and 'for myself.'"