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sung there, we hear here at the same time as it is sung there.
Where is time and place?”
Dr. Srinivasa Rao asked Bhagavan, “What is the meaning
of ‘çeLôUp çeÏYÕ’, i.e., being in sleepless sleep?”
Bhagavan: It is the jnani’s state. In sleep our ego is
submerged and the sense organs are not active. The jnani’s
ego has been killed and he does not indulge in any sense
activities of his own accord or with the notion that he is the
doer. So he is in sleep. At the same time he is not unconscious
as in sleep, but fully awake in the Self; so his state is
sleepless. This sleepless sleep, wakeful sleep, or whatever
it may be called, is the turiya state of the Self, on which as
the screen, all the three avasthas, the waking, dream and
sleep, pass, leaving the screen unaffected.” Bhagavan said
that instead of holding on to that which exists, we are looking
for that which does not. We bother about the past and the
future, not realising the truth of the present. We do not know
the ‘A§’ (beginning) or the ‘@kRm’ (end). But we know
the middle. If we find out the truth of this, we shall know
the beginning and the end. Bhagavan quoted from Bhagavad
Gita: “I am in the heart of all beings and am their beginning,
middle and end.” Bhagavan also said the reality is only
mauna and quoted Thayumanavar:
úYßTÓe NUVùUpXôm ×ÏkÕ Tôod¡u
®[eÏUWm ùTôÚú[¨u ®}Vôh PpXôp
UôßTÓe LÚj§p~ Ø¥®p úUô]
Yô¬§«p S§j§WsúTôp YVe¡t \mUô
(LpXô-u#25)
(i.e., If we scrutinise all the religions which look so different,
we find nothing discrepant at all in them, but they are only
your (Lord’s) sport. They all end in quiescence or mauna, as
rivers merge in the sea).
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