Guest guest Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 THUS SPAKE RAMANA - 102 A traveller in a cart has fallen asleep. The bulls move, stand still or are unyoked during the journey. The traveller does not know these events but finds himself in a different place after he wakes up. He has been blissfully ignorant of the occurrences on the way, but the journey has been finished. Similarly with the Self of a person. The ever wakeful Self is compared to the traveller asleep in the cart. The waking state is the moving of the bulls; samadhi is their standing still (because samadhi means jagrat-sushupti, that is to say, the person is aware but not concerned in the action; the bulls are yoked but do not move); sleep is the unyoking of the bulls, for there is complete stopping of activity corresponding to the relief of the bulls from the yoke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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