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ThePowerOfSilence , " viorica weissman "

<viorica wrote:

 

 

 

17th January, 1939

 

Talk 607.

 

Sri Bhagavan said to Lady Bateman:

 

There is a fixed state; sleep, dream and waking states are mere

movements in it.

 

They are like pictures moving on the screen in a cinema show.

 

Everyone sees the screen as well as the pictures but ignores

 

the screen and takes in the pictures alone. The Jnani however

 

considers only the screen and not the pictures. The pictures

certainly

 

move on the screen yet do not affect it. The screen itself does not

 

move but remains stationary.

 

Similarly, a person travels in a train and thinks that he moves.

 

Really speaking he sits and reposes in his seat, and it is the train

 

which is steaming fast. He however superimposes the motion of the

 

train on himself because he has identified himself with the body.

 

He says, " I have passed one station - now another - yet another

 

- and so on " . A little consideration will show that he sits unmoved

 

and the stations run past him. But that does not prevent him from

 

saying that he has traveled all the way as if he exerted himself to

 

move every foot of the way.

 

The Jnani is fully aware that the true state of Being remains fixed

 

and stationary and that all actions go on around him. His nature

 

does not change and his state is not affected in the least. He looks

 

on everything with unconcern and remains blissful himself.

 

His is the true state and also the primal and natural state of

being. When

 

once the man reaches it he gets fixed there. Fixed once, fixed ever

he

 

will be. Therefore that state which prevailed in the days of Pathala

 

Linga Cellar continues uninterrupted, with only this difference that

 

the body remained there immobile but is now active.

 

 

 

There is no difference between a Jnani and an ajnani in their

 

conduct. The difference lies only in their angles of vision. The

 

ignorant man identifies himself with the ego and mistakes its

 

activities for those of the Self, whereas the ego of the Jnani has

 

been lost and he does not limit himself to this body or that, this

 

event or that, and so on.

 

There is action in seeming inaction, and also inaction in seeming

 

action as in the following instances:

 

 

 

1. A child is fed while asleep. On waking up the next morning, he

 

denies having been fed. It is a case of inaction in seeming action.

 

For although the mother saw him take his food the child himself

 

is not aware.

 

 

 

2. The cartman sleeps in the cart when it jogs along the way in the

 

night and yet he reaches the destination and claims to have driven

 

the cart. This is a case of action in seeming inaction.

 

 

 

3. A man appearing to listen to a story nods his head to the speaker

 

but yet his mind is otherwise active and he does not really follow

 

the story.

 

 

 

4. Two friends sleep side by side. One of them dreams that both

 

of them travel round the globe and have varied experiences. On

 

waking the dreamer tells the other that both of them have been

 

round the earth. The other treats the story with contempt.

 

 

 

The lady protested that dream and sleep do not make any appeal to

 

her. She was asked why then she should be careful about her bed

 

unless she courted sleep.

 

She said that it was for relaxation of the exhausted limbs, rather a

 

state of auto-intoxication. " The sleep state is really dull, whereas

 

the waking state is full of beautiful and interesting things. "

 

 

 

M.: What you consider to be filled with beautiful and interesting

things

 

is indeed the dull and ignorant state of sleep, according to the

Jnani:

 

Ya nisha sarva bhootanam tasyam jagrati samyami.

 

The wise one is wide awake just where darkness rules for others.

 

You must certainly wake up from the sleep which is holding you

 

at present.

 

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