"...There is a real Self underlying the three states, who is by nature immortal and would survive the reduction to nothingness of the unreal, the ego.

Happiness is the very nature of that Self,and hence the Egoless State is the one thing that is desirable, beyond all comparison with anything that there is in relativity.

The one great difficulty that the intellect finds in accepting this teaching is this.
The intellect demands a rational link between the world it knows and the Self or Reality it is told about.It wants a bridge over which it can pass and re-pass between the two. Such a bridge does not exist,and cannot possibly be built by anyone--even by a Sage.

The reason is extremely simple, namely,the fact that the world and the reality are negations of each other. We have seen before that what appears as the world is just the Reality.And this was made intelligible to us by the analogy of the snake seen in a rope.

So too the world and the Reality are negations of each other. They cannot be seen simultaneously. The rope is unrelated to the snake; it did not give birth to the snake.

So too the world and the Reality are negations of each other,in the sense that he that sees one of them does not and cannot at the same time see the other. The two cannot be experienced simultaneously. He that sees the world sees not the Self, the Reality; on the other hand he that sees the Self does not see the world.

So one of them alone can be real-not both.Hence there is no real relation between them.The world did not come into existence from the Reality. The latter is wholly unrelated to the former. Therefore, it is clear that the bridge that the intellect demands does not exist and cannot be built...."

-Ramana