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23. Superimposition of the Qualities of Self Upon the Ego

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127. If you ask, "After appearing in the waking state, how can this

mischievous ego, which did not exist in sleep, say anything about the

experience which existed in sleep?" let us scrutinize and see. Tell

me, does not Self, which existed in sleep as the existence-

consciousness "I am," continue to exist without any impediment in

this waking state also?

 

128. Except the knowledge of the first person singular, the

existence "I am," all the multifarious knowledge which shine in the

waking state, and which pertain to names and forms, are only

knowledge belonging to the unreal ego. But the knowledge of one's own

existence "I am," is the property of Self.

 

129. Though this insentient ego, which rises and dances like a ghost

only in the waking state, cheats itself by making the Self-

consciousness "I am," which Self alone experienced previously in

sleep, appear to be its own here in the waking state, know that in

truth that Self-consciousness "I am" is a quality belonging only to

the Self.

 

- Sri Sadhu Om ( a disciple of Ramana Maharshi )