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 Then he speaks of a Hindu religious song of morning, and the holy formula “Sat-Chi-Ananda”: “sat” meaning “truth”, “Chi” “that which lives” and “true knowledge”  (i.e. not a knowledge void of true perception), and “Ananda” “ineffable joy”. In this conception truth is inseperable from joy. “Yet one must suffer in the search for truth; one must undergo disappointments, fatigues and afflictions without number; but despite everything you draw joy and felicity from it. We have among our classics the story of Rishananda. Who personifies truth; his life of suffering is a life of eternal joy.”

Excerpted from”page number 209, of Romain Rolland and Gandhi Correspondence.”