#Ancient Culture ( Samskaram ) of Bharatham-4.6 : Swami Krishnananda.

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# OPINION : Tuesday, July 28, 2020. 2:56. AM. : 2218
#Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-6.

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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?


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It is a statement made by some peculiar thing which has the memory of having slept the previous day. You have a memory that you slept yesterday, and memory it is that makes you say that you had a good sleep yesterday. But what is memory? It is the recollection of an experience that you had earlier. Unless you had some experience, you cannot have a memory of it. Now you have a memory of having slept. 

That means to say, you had an experience of having slept. Prior to the memory that you have in the waking condition, you had an experience of something which you say now is sleep. Did you have an experience of sleep? You did not have any experience at that time. You were unconscious. 


If you had no consciousness in the state of deep sleep, as you say, how is it possible that you have memory now that you slept yesterday? Does an unconscious stone have a memory of anything? Do you believe that you are totally unconscious in sleep? There would not be a condition of memory afterwards. Remembrance of anything is not possible if it is totally bereft of awareness. 

Unconsciousness cannot breed memory. Memory is always of something which was consciously experienced earlier. That is to say, there must have been consciousness in the state of deep sleep that was covered over by something, due to which at that time you did not have any experience of it. The consciousness that was there in the state of deep sleep was covered over by some cloud like thing, some darkness which prevented the consciousness from being aware of itself. 

Thus, consciousness was absent, but yet it was there. That is the reason why you are having a memory that you slept.

To be continued ...


JAI HIND
JAI BHARATHAM
VANDHE MATHARAM
BHARAT MATHA KI JAI.



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