Tripura Rahasya

Sage Dattatreya said,

• Hemalekha noticed that her husband had attained supreme peace and so did not disturb him. He awoke in an hour and a half, opened his eyes and saw his wife nearby. Eager to fall into that state once more, he closed his eyes; and immediately took hold of his hands and asked sweetly: My Lord, tell me what you have ascertained to be your gain on closing your eyes, or your loss on opening them, my dearest. I love to hear you. Do say what happens on the eyes being closed or left open.
• On being pressed for an answer, he looked as if he were drunk and replied reluctantly and languidly, as follows:
• My dear, I have found pure untainted happiness. I cannot find the least satisfaction in the activities of the world, as sorrow increases when they finish. Enough of them! They are tasteless to me like a sucked orange, only indulged in by wastrels, or like cattle incessantly chewing their cud. What a pity that such people should be to this day unaware of the bliss of their own Self! Just as a man goes begging while ignorant of the treasure hidden under his floor, so did I run after sensual pleasures unaware of the boundless ocean of bliss within me. Worldly pursuits are laden with misery, and pleasures are transient. Still I was so infatuated that I mistook them for enduring pleasures, was often grief-stricken, yet did not cease to pursue them over and over again. The pity of it: Men are fools, unable to discriminate pleasure from pain. They seek pleasures but gain sorrow. Enough of these activities which increase the relish for such pleasure. 
• My dear, I beg you with hands clasped. Let me fall again into the peace of my blissful Self. I pity you that though knowing this state, you are not in it but are ever engaged in vain.