A common satsang-style question has to do with one’s having a non-ordinary experience. Perhaps the experience was blissful, or maybe it was horrifying. What is one to make of it?

The simplest reply is: “Nothing. Just carry on and forget about it. Your true nature is complete, abiding, unchanging.”

If this reply doesn’t do it, then a longer one goes something like this: “Who is it that is contemplating this experience of bliss or horror? You are to carry on until there is no doubt about who you are. When there is no doubter, there is no possibility of a doubt. When there is no doubter, there can be no duality.”

If this reply doesn’t do it, then follow this even lengthier line of inquiry: “In order for there to be any value like bliss or horror, the mind must be present. But the mind is nothing but a concept. At the heart of the mind is this wondrous sense of I. Set aside the concepts like ‘bliss’ and ‘horror,’ and hone in only on this sense of I. Since I is, allegedly, the one who is ‘having’ whatever experience it had, it makes no sense to fixate on the particular experience–be it ‘horrifying,’ ‘fearful,’ or ‘blissful.’ It only makes sense to find out what the real nature of I truly is. Find this out and everything shall be clear.”

“And then what?” There is no question once your true nature is discovered.