Opinion

# OPINION : Tuesday, July 28, 2020. 2:56. AM. : 2218 #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-6. 1. Please think over this matter deeply.  Where was the mind in the state of deep sleep? It was not there.  There was no thought of any kind. The body also was not there as the physical body.  Did you exist minus the physical body and mind? Yes.  What was your condition when you were there existing as independent of the physical body and the mind? “I knew nothing.”  This is all that you can say. “I cannot say what I was. I was fast asleep.” Who is saying that you were fast asleep?  In the morning when you wake up from sleep you say, “I was fast asleep. I had a very happy sleep.” My question is, who is making the statement?  When you say “I had a good sleep yesterday” who is making the statement? Does the physical body make the statement?  The physical body was not there. Is the mind saying it? The mind also was not there. Who is making the statement? 2. It is a statem

# OPINION : Monday, July 06, 2020. 7:37. AM. : 2214 #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-5. 1. A person who is a hundred percent bound and involved in bondage only as his very nature will not have ideas of this kind – namely, ideas of transcending bondage. The idea of unlimited freedom cannot arise in the mind of a person whose mind is really bound and who is incapable of the fulfilment of the aspiration.  We, therefore, seem to be belonging to two worlds. One is the world in which we are now, which is bound to spatial and temporal laws. We live in this world where everything is conditioned in every way. Death itself is the ruler of this world. In addition to all the limitations that harass us from all sides, there is a final limitation which ends our existence itself, which is death.  We live in a mortal world. We live in a world of death. But we also seem to be belonging to another realm which is deathless, which is immortal. 2. Our inner consciousness, whi