Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharshi

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A traveler in a cart has fallen asleep. The bullocks move, stand still or are

unyoked during the journey. He does not know these events but finds himself in a

different place after he wakes up. He has been blissfully ignorant of the

occurences on the way, but the journey has been finished. Similarly with the

Self of a person. The ever-wakeful Self is compared to the traveler asleep in

the cart. The waking state is the moving of the bulls; Samadhi is their standing

still (because Samadhi means Jagrat-sushupti, that is to say, the person is

aware but not concerned in the action: the bulls are yoked but do not moved);

sleep is the unyoking of the bulls for there is complete stopping of activity

corresponding to the relief of the bulls from the yoke.