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Jaya Guru Datta,

 

Here is today's saying:

 

“In the previous lesson, it was shown that bliss is natural for the Jeevis. ‘How

then does unhappiness afflict the Jeevis’? We had stopped at this question.

 

How is unhappiness caused?

 

To get the answer to this question, one should try to understand as to when is

unhappiness caused. Our experience says that there will be no unhappiness at all

during Sushupti. It is only during Jagrat and Svapna that there will be

unhappiness. What is the difference between Sushupti and the other two states?

 

There is only one major difference. During Sushupti, the Jeeva will not have any

contact with the body and the sense organs. In other words, the feeling that ‘I

am the body’ is not there. In the other two states, the Jeeva will enter a body

and will think ‘I am the body’. Therefore, it can be said that wherever the

Jeeva adopts a body, there is bound to be unhappiness. Wherever the Jeeva does

not accept a body, there will be no unhappiness."

 

Sri Swamiji

Lessons in Vedanta - 32 part I

Bhakti Mala, June - July, 1998

 

Sri Guru Datta,

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