Maharshi's Gospel - 13

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D. But we have to deal with a physical body in a physical,

waking world ! If we sleep while working is going on ,

or try to work while asleep, the work will go wrong.

 

 

 

Maharshi :

 

Sleep is not ignorance , it is one's pure state ;

wakefullness is not knowledge , it is isgnorance .

There is full awareness in sleep and total ignorance

in waking. Your real nature covers both and extends

beyond . The Self is beyond both knowledge and ignorance.

Sleep , dream and waking states are only modes passing

before the Self; they proceed whether you are aware of them

or not. That is the state of the jnani , in whom pass the states

of samadhi , waking , dream , and deep sleep , like the bulls

moving , standing or being unyoked , while the passanger is

asleep. These answers are from the point of view of the ajnani ;

otherwise such questions would not arise.