deepsleep state

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Hare Krishna, Namaskarams

 

Following are excerpts in two parts from the book Prabodha Sudha

(Nector of Enlightenment) " The essence of practical

Vedanta " –transcriptions of lectures by Swami Poornananda Thirtha in

1966 at Bombay which I felt relevant to topics currently under

discussions by learned scholars of the group.These are from the second

section of the book on Sat Darshan by Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi.

 

Part 1:-Sat Darshan: Verse 7.

" Without the personality consisting of the five sheaths does the world

reveal by itself?

If anybody has seen or experienced the world without the Deha or by

the five sheathed personality, let him report to me. "

 

……………..the ego has two aspects: avarana-veiling of or covering up of

the Atman, and vikshepa- projecting as the intellect, mind, body, and

the world, thereby creating Moha, Delusion, the notion that the world

and body are real and that happiness is to be from the world.

 

In sleep, the vikshepa ceases temporarily and avarana alone is there.

The ego remains quiet, withdrawing its hood as a snake does while

curling up in its basket. Happiness and Unhappiness are two different

vibrations in the Anthakaranam. In deep sleep, since the mind itself

is absent, we experience neither dukkha or sukha. This state is of the

Anandamaya kosa. The happiness therein is at best a negative one,

which is best illustrated by the following example. A man struggling

from irritation caused by a particle of dust in one of the eyes feels

immensely happy as soon as the particle is removed. It is not positive

happiness, as it was caused not by his getting something new, but by

the removal of the dust particle that gave him dukkha. Similarly, in

sleep too we are happy as we don't feel any dukkha.

 

Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi asks: Has anybody ever experienced or

cognized the world independent of or except through one's personality

consisting of the five sheaths? Does the world reveal by itself? No………….

 

Baskaran.

P.S.: part two `the state of bliss " in next post..