Maharshi's Gospel - 37

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D. Can I not remain in susupti as long as I like and also be in it

at will , just as I am in the waking state ? What is the jnani's

experience of these three states ?

 

 

Maharshi -

 

Susupti does exist in your waking state also. You are in susupti

even now. That should be consciously entered into and reached

in this very waking state. There is no real going in and coming

out of it. To be aware of susupti in the jagrat state is jagrat-susupti

and that is samadhi.

 

The ajnani cannot remain long in susupti , because he is forced

by his nature to emerge from it. His ego is not dead and it will

rise again and again. But the jnani crushes the ego at its Source.

It may seem to emerge at times in his case also as if impelled by

prarabdha. That is , in the case of the jnani also , for all outward

purposes prarabdha will seem to sustain or keep up the ego ,

as in the case of the ajnani; but there is this fundamental difference,

that the ajnani's ego when it rises up ( really it has never subsided

except in deep sleep ) is quite ignorant of its Source: in other words

the ajnani is not aware of his susupti in his dream and waking states:

in the case of the jnani , on the contrary , the rise or existence of the

ego is only apparent , and he enjoys his unbroken , transcendental

Experience in spite of such apparent rise or existence of the ego,

keeping his attention ( laksya ) always on the Source. This ego is

harmless ; it is merely like the skeleton of a burnt rope - though

with a form , it is useless to tie up anything.

 

By constantly keeping one's attention on the Source , the ego

is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.