GOD DEFINED

Sat-Chit-Ananda is the traditional definition of God in Vedanta.  It stands for Absolute Existence, Absolute Consciousness, Absolute Bliss or Joy, which is the subjective experience of the ultimate, unchanging reality of God.

Absolute Existence means that God is vast, infinite, limitless, i.e. not limited in time, eternal. There is no second to God, the way in which He is nondual. There is nothing that is not God, nothing that is apart from God.  He is everywhere and everything.

Chit is Absolute Consciousness.  God is pure consciousness, a consciousness that is neither created nor destroyed, and is content-less, without content.  This is unlike ordinary consciousness which has an object as its content.

The pure consciousness that is God illuminates our conditioned consciousness.  The pure consciousness that is God is in all of existence.  The pure consciousness that is Go is all of existence.  All of existence emanates from the pure consciousness that is God like sparks from a fire.

Ananda means Pure Bliss, Absolute Joy, the highest state of being.  When we unite with God we feel  how infinite He is, prompting Ananda.  If we are not experiencing Ananda, it is because our minds and senses are too attached to sense objects.  When we are no longer bound to sense objects  the result is Ananda.