wakeful sleep or sleeping wakefulness or sleepless sleep or wakeless waking

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Lord Jesus:

"Be Still and Know That I am GOD"

 

Ramana Maharishi:

"We learn that the thoughts in the waking state form the obstacle to gaining the stillness of sleep; stillness is the aim of the seeker. Even a single effort to still at least a single thought even for a trice goes a long way to reach the state of quiescence. Effort is required and it is possible in the waking state only. There is the effort here; there is awareness also; the thoughts are stilled; so there is the peace of sleep gained.

 

That is the state of the jnani. It is neither sleep nor waking but intermediate between the two. There is the awareness of the waking state and the stillness of sleep. It is called jagratsushupti. Call it wakeful sleep or sleeping wakefulness or sleepless sleep or wakeless waking... it is not the same as sleep or waking separately. It is the state of perfect awareness and of perfect stillness combined."

 

( Thanks to: 'Hunting the I - according to Sri Ramana Maharshi' - By LUCY CORNELSSEN )

 

 

Love ALL Serve ALL. God is Great.B. Viswanathan - from azhagi.com

 

You are neither body nor mind. You are the birthless, deathless, limitless SELF - Ramana MaharishiYou have no parents. You were never born and You shall never die - Nisargadatta Maharaj