The joy which Ma Anandamayi lived was not that which we know in worldly life where pleasure and pain, hope and regret and disillusionment, attraction, repulsion follow in each other's heels, born one of another, but which was deeply rooted in the Absolute, beyond the dualities of good and evil of I and not I, of pleasant and unpleasant, because its unshakable base is Love and Wisdom.