To sleep is to
surrender to the true self, which is the invisible substance and witness of the
experience of duality. The sleep gives
the non-dual experience or experience-less state. Sleep is an inescapable need.
There is no substitute for it.
All the three
states being one of the most significant phenomena in the existence of the individual
must be thoroughly analyzed and understood to unfold the mystery of the mind.
Any attempts to
give an explanation of three states in purely psychological terms will be
incomplete and misleading as well. Everyone consider the three states to be
inevitably experience of the physical entity. And psychological inventions are
based on physical self and they cannot transport the seeker beyond the physical
barrier.
Scientists are
searching the truth within the physical body, but they fail to understand they
have to investigate the mind has to exist prior to the body, because a body
cannot function on its own. From where they can get the mind, which does not
exist in the physical body, but pervades the whole experience of diversity. Therefore there is no way scientist can find the
truth in laboratory inventions. The truth has to be got through deeper inquiry,
reasoning and analysis on the true base. Thus until and unless the worldview is
viewed and judged on the true base the truth will not be revealed.
Many authorities
regard the three states as individual experience, and consider consciousness is
the result of activating physical apparatus alone through external stimuli. The
three states, in their opinion, is therefore a individual experience.
The essence of all
these physiological explanation is that three states are of the physical body.
This is radically wrong conclusion. A more profound investigation is required
to unfold the mystery of the mind to realize the inner realities.
History speaks
throughout the investigation in the past man limits his mind to physical apparatus
is the main hurdle in pursuit of truth. Therefore it is necessary for the
seeker of truth to investigate what is mind, before indulging in pursuit of
truth. Throughout the history one is
conditioned to view and judge the worldview on the physical form as self, but
self is prior the physical body and its experience of the world. Thus viewing
and judging the truth on the base of physical form as self is erroneous. To get
the truth of one’s own existence it is right thing to view and judge the
worldview on the formless entity, which
is solely responsible for the existence of the experience of diversity.
The individualized
viewing and judging the worldview is the hindrance in realizing the truth which
lies beyond the mind. The experience of
diversity [I] disappears and reappears, but one is one is aware of appearance
and disappearance of the three state in succession only in the waking
experience. In dream there is unawareness of the waking experience. And in deep
sleep there in unawareness of the waking and dream experiences. Thus one which
is aware of these three states has to be present in all the three states.
Therefore it has to be something which is apart from these thee states. Thus
the invisible witness [knower] of these three states has to be traced mentally
and grasped. This invisible witness itself is the true self. This invisible
substance and witness is present as invisible substance of the three states.
Only when the witness is traced and realized
as true self, the ignorance vanishes.
When the ignorance vanishes the duality vanishes. When the duality
vanishes the experience of diversity is mere mirage.
The experience of
diversity also evolves as self unfolds, the self becomes aware of its formless
nondual nature and remain conscious of
its true nature even in midst of the experience of diversity. Remaining
conscious of it true nature in the midst of the experience of diversity is
wisdom.
Self knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is
not merge in the nature and remaining in non duality. But in the midst of the
experience of diversity being aware of the true self and realizing the fact
that experience of diversity is mere mirage. Self is not a coincidental product
of physiological process, but the very reason for the existence of experience
of diversity.
Self is the
standard by which the distinction between the three states should be
understood. In experience of diversity [waking or dream] the person becomes
conscious of him-self and perceives the world. In sleep the experience of
diversity disappears.
Physiologically,
the three states may be described as retarding and accelerating of higher brain
centers, but they are more significantly defined as the submerging and emerging
of the true self. In order to answer the basic question of why the self should oscillate
between the quiescent state of sleep and active state of experience of
diversity (Waking and dream),one must attack the primary origin of the mind(I
or experience of diversity). Before the beginning of all the beginning, the
state of formless and non-dual, the oblivion of the experience of diversity.
Thus one easily conclude that, the one which is aware of its non-dual true
nature and one is which is in oblivion of experience of diversity is formless
entity. Thus it is necessary to seek
truth on the base of formless entity in order to unfold the mystery of the mind
or ‘I’.
The utter and
unrelieved oblivion of self forgetfulness the non-dual nature of self beyond
state was broken in order that the self should consciously know itself, in the
midst of the experience of diversity.
When the self
remains in its non-dual true nature it is temporarily is free from the
experience of diversity, which is identified as deep sleep. Because of the
compulsion of conditioned mind set prevents man from grasping the truth of the
reality of his own existence and subject him to increasing limitations and
helplessness. Man is a spider caught in the web of duality due to the ignorance
of the true self.
In the deep sleep
state self becomes latent temporarily. Until one becomes aware of the true self
consciously in the midst of the experience of diversity or death, the burden
and bondage of experience of diversity is bound to be there. Becoming aware of
the self in the midst of experience of diversity is self realization. And knowledge of the true self is self
–knowledge.
The conditioned mind set forces one to believe ‘I’ as true self, and remain in intoxication of the ‘I’ and waste the whole life time believing the ‘I’ as self. And all his seeking and practices is focused to free the ‘I’ from the experience of duality. How one can become free from experience of diversity (duality) when ‘I’ itself is the cause of duality. Without the ‘I’ there is no experience of duality. ‘I’, which appears and disappears, is causing the duality. Therefore it is erroneous to seek truth on base of ‘I’ which is not the self. Therefore it is necessary to know “What is ‘I’”, before indulging in the pursuit of truth.
In his desperate
attempts during the Waking experience to overcome the duality, man attempt to
escape himself through existing mindset. Although drowning himself in
experiencing, the experience of diversity as reality and trying to get solace
from religious and yogic and other theoretical methods which frees him
temporarily, but he will nor escape from the burden and bondage of the
experience of diversity, until and unless he becomes aware of the true fact
that ‘I’ is not the self but ‘I’ is the whole experience of diversity. The
whole experience of diversity in turn is mind. Thus it is necessary to
understand the fact that mind is not limited to the physical entity, but mind
is the whole experience of diversity. The invisible witness, which witnesses
the appearance of disappearance of the ‘I’ is the true self. Therefore it is
necessary to view and judge the worldview on the base the invisible witness in
order to unfold the mystery of the mind.
As a man one
identifies waking, dream and deep sleep states as human experience. But on the
standpoint of the true self, all the three states are mere illusion. Until man
becomes aware of the true- self ,he is bound to believe the three states as
reality, and view and judge the worldview, on the base of ‘I’ as self. The ‘I’
disappears only when one views and judges the worldview on the base of true
self.
When one seeks
freedom from the ennul of the waking experience by loosing consciousness in the
deep sleep experience, no slightest destruction of awareness occurs. Deep sleep
is an experience-less awareness. Experience-less awareness is true nature of
the self. Therefore consciously remaining in experience-less awareness by
realizing the experience of diversity is mere mirage in the midst of experience
of diversity will lead to awareness of the true self or Atman.
Deep-sleep is
unconscious self awareness. To become aware of the true self it is possible
only in Waking experience. Since only in waking one can speak of the deep sleep
and dream experiences. Only in waking
experience the aspirant is able to find and realize the true self consciously.
Deep sleep is an
unconscious withdrawal of the self, from experience of diversity into temporary
oblivion. In this mind (I) is completely absent. And it is in the state of
burden-less and bondage-less existence. That is free from birth, life and death
or pleasure and pain. Deep Sleep is unconscious stillness of the mind (I).
Consciously remaining stillness within the experience of diversity is possible
only when one has the knowledge of the true self. When the self is conscious of
itself the experience of diversity is mere mirage and it will be able to remain
as witness of the mirage.
In deep sleep both
the dual and non-dual experience is forgotten as self remains as mere witness of
the appearance and disappearance of the three states. In deep sleep the true
self exists as merely as a witness of the dual and non-dual experiences.
Sleep
stands in the same relationship to the self as death does to life. In both
death and sleep the experience of diversity is absent. Death is not
annihilation of life but its transference to remain in the original non-dual
nature of the self which is spirit or Atman. Sleep and death are unconscious
transference to remain in non-dual nature of the self. Wisdom or self knowledge
is consciously reaming in the nature of the self and witnessing the birth, life
and death as mere illusion.
