Ramana...vigilance dissolves the ego

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Visitor:

Sushupti (dreamless sleep) is so peaceful that one would

love to stay as long as possible in it, but cannot, why?

 

Bhagavan:

We are ever in sushupti. Becoming aware of it in jagrat

(waking state) is samadhi. The ajnani cannot remain long

in sushupti because his ego pushes him out of it.

The Jnani, although he has scotched the ego, it continues

to rise again and again due to prarabdha.

 

So, for both the Jnani and the ajnani the ego springs up,

but with this difference: whereas the Jnani's enjoys the

transcendental experience, keeping its lakshya (aim,

attention) always fixed on its source, that of the ajnani is

completely ignorant of it. The former is not harmful, being a

mere skeleton of its normal self, like a burnt up rope.

 

By constantely fixing its attention on the Source, the Heart,

the ego gets dissolved into it like a salt doll which has fallen

into the ocean.

 

S.S. Cohen: Guru Ramana

 

 

love, Era