The Wakeful State Is Not Sachchidananda

05-17-2002, 05:36 PM

Jaya Guru Datta,

Here is today's saying:

“I am far away from the wakeful state. I am the sun in the clear sky.

The antahkarana (internal insturment) is inert. But it is clear like a crystal.
Therefore it pretends as though it is a Drashta (seer) because of the reflection
in it of the Pratyagatma.

The same anatah karana will reach the objects of perception through the sense
organs and, by virtue of its subtlety, will even assume the form of the object
and thus behaves as the 'seen' also.

The state in which the antah karana undergoes modification as a drashta (seer)
as well as the drishya (seen) is called as Jagradavastha (wakeful state).

Thus, when the antahkarana is undergoing modifications, how can the wakeful
state be related to me, who is of the form of Sachchidananda?"

In Sanskrit:

Jaagradavasthaa bahu dooroham
Nirmala gaganaga mihiroham

Pratyak chaitanyasya tu yogaat
jadamapyantah karanamaho
Drashtriva natati sphatika svachcham
sva pratibimbita chidrekam 1

Atha chedam draak karana dvaaraa
sampraaptam sadvishaya bhuvam
Saakshmyaadvishayaakaaram praapya
drishyavadapi cha vyavaharati 2

Evam drashtraakaaratayaapi cha
drishyaakaarata yendriyagaa
Yatra tu parinaamam dheereti
jaagradavashtaa saa proktaa 3

Antahkarane tvevam vikritim
praapte pratyagvaachyasa
Sambadhyeta mama saavasthaa
kathamiva sachidaanandasya 4

Sri Swamiji
Journey In To the Self (Lessons in Vedanta) Volume 1
Bhajan 9 pp.31-32

Sri Guru Datta,
Swamiji Says

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