My waking world (Jagrat) is different from yours. My dream world (Swapna) is different from yours. But my deep sleep state (Sushupti) and your deep sleep state are the same. Sushupti is one and the same for all.
In deep sleep:
A king loses the kingship; A beggar loses the poverty.
A blind person loses the blindness; A person with eyes loses the sight.
A terrorist loses his terrorism; A noble person loses his nobility.
A lion loses its ferociousness.
A rabbit loses its timidity.
A deer loses its fear.
Thus, Sushupti, the deep sleep state is the same for all.
Why so? Because we all lose our Ego and hence lose our individuality.
So, the Nature is silently trying to tell us how every one of us could feel one and the same. But due to the presence of our Ego we do not feel the oneness. In deep sleep, the Nature is showing us the Oneness and also the Unity in Diversity.
In deep sleep:
A Christian loses his Christianity.
A Muslim forgets that he is a Muslim.
A Hindu or Sikh or Buddhist or for that matter everybody loses the religion in the deep sleep.
The reason is, everybody is forced by the Nature to drop the Ego in the deep sleep which results in the feeling of oneness. Dropping the Ego means losing our individuality and start seeing oneness in everybody.
A child in its infancy smiles at everybody. It does not know its or others’ religion, caste, creed or nationality. The child simply smiles at everybody because it does not have the ego or its ego is not fully developed. As the child grows, from the Universal Person (Vishwa Manava) it becomes a Limited Person (Alpa Manava) because the Ego becomes fully developed resulting in the loss of oneness.
Sushupti, the deep sleep state is clearly proving it to us that when the individual Ego is absent it results in Oneness and Unity in Diversity.
On the contrary, if we desire Oneness and Unity in Diversity all we need to do is shed our Ego.
Successfully dropping the Ego is called Self-Realisation and it is possible if we identify "I" with the Life Energy, the Self, the Atman which is one and the same Life Principle in everyone of us.
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Lol! Jagrath seems a misnomer!
ReplyDeleteHow do we extend this ego-less state to our waking state?
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Wonderful analysis. Very simple and straight approach to understand the effect of ego and why we should leave ego. Only step to go nearer to god. Vedic knowledge is so good. We are deprived of it through this English education system
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