QnA for the day

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M : The universe exists on account of the 'I' thought. If that ends,

there is an end of misery also. The person who is in sleep is also

now awake. There is happiness in sleep but misery in wakefulness.

In sleep there was no 'I' thought, but is now while awake. The state

of happiness in sleep is effortless. We should therefore aim to bring

about that state even now. That requires effort.

 

Note : Bhagavan persists in hammering in us the truth that happiness

comes only from the Self. Whenever there is the thought of oneself -

of 'I' - there is also a thought world - you, they, he, and million

other things, - and whenever there is a world there is suffering.

This may be taken as an inflexible law. The world is therefore a

state of misery. One who is in utter misery drugs or drinks himself

to sleep, so that he may forget himself and his misery for some time

in the blessedness of sleep where there prevails freedom from thought

and, thus, from misery. After sleeping off his suffering, the

drugged person wakes up to resume it again.

 

Therefore in order to be perennially free from suffering we

have to perpetuate our sleep, even in the waking state, in the very

world itself. This is the aim of all yogic practices and is called

samadhi, which means sleep in the waking state or sushupti in jagrat,

to which all efforts have to be directed.