Stopped In Our Tracks
Stories of U.G. In India from the Notebooks of K. ChandrasekharTranslated and Edited by J.S.R.L. Narayana Moorty 2d/3d Series
Deep Sleep and Turiya
Why are you talking of deep sleep? If there is any such thing as deep sleep, it is not possible for any individual who is in deep sleep to know anything about that. So don't talk about deep sleep. Deep sleep is the death of the whole body—not the fancy dying to your yesterdays. The body goes through what is called a clinical death at the moment when there is deep sleep. At that moment there is no body there. The body may or may not come back from that deep sleep. If, due to some strange chance, it comes back to life and is able to renew itself, the whole life—genetically programmed life—is there. After this deep sleep there is no more sleep for the body
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You are talking of the turiya state where there is no division. Do you know what you are talking about? All your sadhana is the very thing that is creating the division there. Through knowing you think, you will become. Maybe that fellow who talked about it was in a state of bliss. What good is that? If you experience that, it is false. If you touch the man, it is false.
The atman is created by that junk Mandukya Upanishad. You don't have to get drunk to understand sobriety.
You are talking of the turiya state where there is no division. Do you know what you are talking about? All your sadhana is the very thing that is creating the division there. Through knowing you think, you will become. Maybe that fellow who talked about it was in a state of bliss. What good is that? If you experience that, it is false. If you touch the man, it is false.
The atman is created by that junk Mandukya Upanishad. You don't have to get drunk to understand sobriety.
