When he sleeps

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Ajatasatru took Gargya by the hand and the two together came to a man

who was deep asleep wearing white clothes.

 

Ajatasatru addressed the sleeping man,

"Thou, great one, dressed in whiteness !"

 

The sleeping man did not rise.

 

Ajatasatru continued,

"O Soma! O King !"

 

The sleeping man did not rise.

 

Ajatasatru continued by calling great names.

The sleeping man did not rise.

 

With a wink in his eye, Ajatasatru shook the sleeping man with his

hand.

The sleeping man did wake up now and rose.

 

Ajatasatru to Gargya:'When this man was thus asleep, where was then

the person, the intelligent? where was his consciousness gone; and

when he awoke, wherefrom did it return ?'

Gargya:'? '

 

Ajatasatru:When this man, who is a conscious, intelligent being, is

thus in deep sleep, he enters into Brahman, within the lotus of the

heart, having withdrawn into himself both his senses and his mind.

When his senses and his mind are thus withdrawn, he is said to be

absorbed in Brahman.

In this state he knows nothing;he enters into the 72,000 nerves which

go out from the lotus of the heart. Even as a young man, or as an

emperor, or the best of seekers, when he has experienced the ecstacy

of love, straightaway takes sweet repose, so does a man deep in sleep

find rest.

When he sleeps, .....

 

.... BrihadAranyaka Upanishad.

 

With Love,

Raghava