![]() He is God and always His nature is consciousness. The Antaratman (the innermost Self) is the "I". If he were not there, who would get sleep? So self is "Consciousness" and of the nature of "knowingness" and prior to that is Parabrahman. Who is experiencing sleep and samadhi? He alone. He (self) was there during sleep, during awakeness, and during samadhi. But the self knows on the whole that he climbed the stairs. A man climbed up the stairs but if his mind did not touch the question of how many stairs he climbed then he would not be able to tell the number. The mind does not take the touch of anything and so cannot say anything. Just like this one can not express anything in sleep, for during sleep there are no instruments that are required for expression. ![]() Thus he could inform the lady that the nose-ring is found only when he came out of the water. As the water and fire are enemical to each other the power of the deity of fire was absent when he was immersed in the water. The man found the ring deep inside the water but obviously could not inform her instantly as he was completely under the water. She told one man to find it and inform her as soon as it is found. Only when one awakes, one can express the experience.Ī woman's nose-ring fell into the water. Why can't we express the joy in sleep? Because the mind and the intellect are not there. One who experiences the state of awakeness does not disappear when experiencing the state of unconsciousness or sleep. He is a concept conceived through intelligence. The seer, the witness, the one who sees and the one who sleeps is "Ishwara", God. That is Parabrahman, the Antahkarana (i.e. It never goes anywhere nor does it come from anywhere. After transgressing the four built in bodies whatever remains is shapeless, detached, in its own natural state and is steady. Whatever remains prior to the "beingness" or knowledge is reality. One who knows his beingness is called "Ishwara"-God. It is the natural state that remains when all the four bodies (the physical, the subtle, the causal, i.e., complete ignorance, and the supra causal, i.e., knowledge "I am") are set aside. It has no limits, that is what the sages say." ![]() ![]() Brahman is unattached, Brahma is without change. ![]()
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