Thus Spake Ramana 107

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THUS SPAKE RAMANA - 107

 

Sleep is not ignorance, it is one's pure state; wakefulness is not

knowledge, it is ignorance. There is full awareness in sleep and total

ignorance in waking. Your real nature covers both and extends beyond. The

Self is beyond both knowledge and ignorance. Sleep, dream and waking states

are only modes passing before the Self; they proceed whether you are aware

of them or not. That is the state of the jnani, in whom pass the state of

samadhi, waking, dream, and deep sleep, like the bulls moving, standing, or

being unyoked, while the passenger is asleep. These answers are from the

point of view of the ajnana, otherwise such questions would not arise.