Guest guest Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 >>If, as the advaitic theory has it, deep sleep is known whilst it is going on .... Dear Michael, You are correct ...! Yes, state of deep sleep is ...like NOW. i.e. it has ...NO Time. ....and, yes, you KNOW it, yet, you can not describe it in thoughts or ...words. It is Before thoughts and ...beyond thoughts, ....the best you can say is, it is ...No-thought or as you appropriately said it is `content less' ! If you have ever known ...NOW, if you have ever known ...not-thinking, ....then, you also no Deep Sleep ! Yet, you can Not describe it in thoughts, words ... It would be sort of like trying to describe no-thought in terms of thoughts... Silence in terms of Sound ... Void in terms of things ... Best, you can is, it is NOT It ...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 As it has been described many times, ...perception of time is purely a Mental thing and it requires thought ...! No thought, no perception of time ... ....and, " how much " makes absolutely No Sense, as nothing has passed and there is no trace back, ...or there is a trace-back but, it is ...All Absolutely Same ! ....like zeros following zeros, nothing following ...nothing, emptiness following ...emptiness... You can have a `lot' of thoughts ... " much " of thoughts ... you can have `many' thoughts ... But, how much of " no thought " , ...the very idea is Absurd. Think of pure empty space ... If all things are gone, ...can see " how much " about empty space ...? ....would it make any sense. " how much " is born just because of distance between " no-empty-space " , ....distance between ...things. Just like, time is perceived only as the ...distance ...between thoughts, ....or distance made by one thought after the other. ....as in ...one thing after, ...the other. Whether, you are in deep sleep, ...for minutes, hours, or whether it was the years between birth and death ... or million years before manifestation ... There is perception of any passage of ...Time. As in ...there is NO ...Time. Only ...NOW ... As in, NOW ...is ...Only ...NOW ... Not, a " how much " ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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