Sat-chit-ananda

'This is a Sanskrit term which translates as being-consciousness-bliss.  Sri Ramana [Maharshi] taught that the Self is pure being, a subjective awareness of ‘I am’ which is completely devoid of the feeling ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that’.  There are no subjects or objects in the Self, there is only an awareness of being.  Because this awareness is conscious it is also known as consciousness.  The direct experience of this consciousness is, according to Sri Ramana, a state of unbroken happiness and so the term ‘ananda’ or bliss is also used to describe it.  These three aspects, being, consciousness and bliss, are experienced as a unitary whole and not as separate attributes of the Self.  They are inseparable in the same way that wetness, transparency and liquidity are inseparable properties of water.'

​- David Godman, in 'Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi.'

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