The word Bliss means-Perfect happiness,great joy,pleasure,delight,happiness,heaven,paradise or reach a state of perfect happiness. Blissfulness is a state of extreme happiness.
Happiness,wisdom and creativity are characteristics of the absolute state of being,which is pure consciousness.This absolute bliss consciousness is the veritable source of man,and there need be neither dullness nor apathy in the life of any individual man,for he is born of wisdom.Only so long as he is unaware of,and separated from,this fountain of wisdom can he find himself in ignorance and confusion.
Lk.1:25 "This is what the Lord has done for me when he looked favourably on me and too away the disgrace I have endured among my people." Zacharias was a priest in the city of Judaea.It was his job to take care of the temple of God.One day,while he was in temple,he had a vision.He saw an angel of the Lord standing in front of him.
"Don't be afraid Zacharias",the angel said."God has heard your prayers.He knows how much you crave for a child.Your wife Elizabeth, will give birth to a son whom you must call John.He will be filled with God's holy spirit and will go as God's messenger, preparing the way for the Lord.When he grow up,he will teach people to repent and stop sinning.Many will listen to him and change their ways."
But Zacharias was an old man.His wife Elizabeth,was old too.He doubted that his wife could have any children.He asked the angel,
"How can I believe you? My wife and I are both old.How can we give birth to a child at this age? "I am Gabriel," the angel told him."I have been with God.God has sent me to tell you this good news.Since you don't believe me,you will not be able to speak till your son is born."
The angel said these words and disappeared. Zacharias when tried to utter a word,he found unable to do so.He thought that angel must be telling the truth.When Zacharias finally stepped out of the temple,the people asked him why he had been inside for so long.But Zacharias couldn't tell them.For,just like the angel had told him,he could not utter a word.
Zacharias went home,and some time later,his wife was very happy to discover that they were going to have a baby.This was the blissful situation for Zacharias and his wife Elizabeth.
A man shivers in the cold of the corridor simply because he is not enjoying the warmth of the living room.there is no reason for man to be dull and uncreative. He has tremendous potentialities for creation.He is born to enjoy,not to suffer.He is able to experience joy and consciousness in all their abundance.This is why we dare to say that life is bliss and man is born to enjoy.
Misery,pain,happiness,all these are part of our daily experiences.But blissfulness is happiness of a higher order;it is permanent and enduring and does not have the transient quality of all ordinary happiness.Blissfulness is a real gift and everlasting happiness from God Almighty.