What is bliss?
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In life everyone has experienced some moments of great happiness. But it has always been for a reason. The state of that happiness does not seem to remain forever. It is there temporarily, and when it changes or goes away, once again you feel pain. Only the happiness you experience for no reason at all, which does not die for any reason, is real and permanent happiness. This is what is called bliss. Such happiness doesn’t depend on anything outside of you.
The word ‘ananda’ itself means, ‘that which cannot be reduced, which cannot be lost’. Ananda does not translate into ‘happiness’. You will be surprised to know, it simply means ‘that which cannot be reduced or lost’. And bliss is that thing which does not reduce for any reason.