The delusion of saguna

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, RYAN RAMKISSOON

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> It is a fact that man then first loses consciousness of the feet

and then of the lower part of his body until at last he is aware only

within his head.

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> This is the crucial moment when the world which ordinarily filters

through the five senses into consciousness,disappears. Only after

this does he suddenly lapse into sleep. It is the pause here for a

fraction of a second which has to be detected by extreme vigilance.

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> The attention must be kept from straying and held so acutely that

the bed,the room and even the body become dulled to the point of

obliteration.The student should try to overcome the all round loss of

consciousness,to conquer the overpowering swoon which comes with

sleep.

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> He cannot prevent sleep for Nature's habit must have her course,but

he can prevent the fall into ignorance of what is happening to him

during the passage into the new state. HE must try to keep his

awareness and to mremain in it even whilst his body and thinking

faculty are completely at rest.

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> He must observe himself and be more than watchful against the

tremulous coming of sleep in that delectable borderland through which

he passes,in those fluttering fractions of a moment which time the

passage from gross wakefulness to profound slumber.

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> If this is the crucial moment when a man will lose this tiny seed

of awareness and fall into sleep as almost all men do,it is also the

critical moment when through advanced yoga practice he could enter

into the Light itself.Those alone who taken the trouble to practise

these exercises are best entitled to say what practical possibilities

they contain or whether they will " work " or not.

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> But this pause between 2 states technically termed " the neutral

point " ,is as brief as a flash of lightning.If he succeeds in seizing

and keeping hold of it,he may pass from this stage into the pure Mind-

the background of all his conscious thought moments-and retain it as

a mere glimmer of utter emptiness throughout the night.

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> .....The fourth state will come upon him unawares,that is he will

not be conscious of his actual entry into it. One moment he will be

in the ordinary wakeful state and the next moment he will be in the

transcendental one.The process of transition will take place in the

sphere outside his own consciousness.He will then discover himself to

be in a new world of being.The momentary consciousness has become a

footprint which has led him to the hidden self whence it originated.

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> Whosoever can succeed in this practice will find that the sublime

beatitude of the transcendental consciousness will be intermittently

present throughout the most feverish activities of the day and full

so throughout the slumber of the night.

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> The curious thing about the hidden observer is that it is very much

awake when we are very much asleep,as it is perfectly conscious when

we are utterly unconscious.

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> It is the " I " which is ever aware and consequently our real self.

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> It hovers in a sort of watchful self-contemplation,never losing

hold on itself and consequently never falling into the oblivion of

ordinary sleep.

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Namaste,

 

Thaat may be true and a lovely experience but it is still in

experience...true enlightenment is beyond the mind like sushupti and

cannot be remembered, only the return is blissful memory...Tony.