Question:

Namaste Ektaji, Is it a correct conclusion that only when I recognize the awareness during deep sleep, I will recognize that it is a state that appears and disappears in nothingness? Till then, it will appear to be the same as nothingness.

Answer:

There is no possibility of recognizing the awareness in deep sleep. If this were possible, it would mean that there is:

• • Number 1 – A deep sleep state,
  • Number 2 – Awareness in it,
  • Number 3 – Recognizer of the Awareness.

This itself is an illusory Dvaitam [duality] idea as preposterous as a belief in miracles.

What is Deep Sleep?

Deep Sleep is the absence of waking and dreaming mentalizations. The emptiness is Deep Sleep, which is also a mere mentalization.

What is Awakened Deep Sleep? 

Awakened Deep Sleep is the recognition that there is no localized, central observer of the mentalizations but a non-localized observation field aware of itself, in Waking, Dream, and Sleep mentalizations.

Awakened Deep Sleep comprises several mini-realizations: 

• • Relative to the Somethingness of Waking and Dreaming, Deep Sleep is described as Nothingness or Emptiness.
  • Shunyata or Emptiness can be compared to Space; Only it is alive and conscious, not dead and unconscious.
  • Alive and Dynamic Nothingness has the quality of Knowingness.
  • Somethingness is the Activity of Nothingness, comprising Waking and Dream. [Activity = Rajas]
  • Nothingness is the Inertia of Nothingness, comprising Deep Sleep. [Inertia = Tamas]
  • Somethingness that appears in Nothingness is made of the same Nothingness.
  • Waking and dreaming are active mentalizations known by the Nothingness field.
  • Somethingness appears in Nothingness. Somethingness disappears back into Nothingness. The disappearance of the Rajasic Vritti is termed as the Tamasic Vritti or Deep Sleep.
  • Post disappearance, nothingness is known by nothingness.
  • The knowledge about its nature of nothingness is termed as the awakened deep sleep state.
  • It is all ONE. There is no other.
  • This Knowledge is already known by the Knowing Nothingness. It is only the mind that is pretending that it can know that which lies beyond.

If you do not recognize these yet, no worries. It’s time to jump onto the bandwagon of Swapna Nidra Gnyana Sadhana – Effacement by the wisdom of dream and sleep. These books might be beneficial for your journey:

• • Spiraling Avenues: Waking, Dreaming, Sleeping, Being: Swapna Nidra Gnyana Sadhana: https://tinyurl.com/SNGSvol1
  • Beyond the Veil of Sleep and Dream: Swapna Nidra Gnyana Sadhana: https://tinyurl.com/SNGSvol2

Don’t quit until you recognize that there are no states, but simply mentalizations!

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