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Last Night, I Knew I Was Asleep – Does That Mean I Was Not In Deep Sleep?

by Ekta Bathija

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Listen to Ektaji's answers to different questions related to Advaita (non-duality). These teachings are aimed at experiential understanding of the Truth viz. the dissolution of the Subject and Object relationship.

SleepDeep SleepAdvaitaNon DualityExperiential UnderstandingTruthPerceptionRealityAwarenessWakefulnessMindsetSleep AwarenessPerception Vs RealityKnowingnessThought AwarenessChildlike MindDreamsDream StatesIllusionsSubject Object Relationships

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Or you have just come out of the deep sleep.

The mind arose in knowingness.

Knowingness is like space and the mind is totally on pause or stop or shut down mode.

It does not exist.

In that knowingness only as a little vibration the mind arose.

And see,

I was your first thought.

I and then am asleep.

Followed.

Yeah?

But I thought is always the first thought.

Yes?

From that I thought you come into the dreaming state and then many many images come,

Many many thoughts come.

And then from that slowly you come into the waking state and you start thinking this object is real.

This body is real.

Yeah?

This world that I am perceiving I start thinking it is made of objects.

But really it is not different from my dreaming state.

We could be talking in the dream right now.

Yeah?

Same thing could be happening.

You could be perceiving through the same eyes.

Yes?

There is no difference between perceiving and knowing.

It is the same.

Perceiving is made of knowing.

There is no object really.

So if you continue to keep seeing it this way,

Keep seeing it this way.

Because this is my pure experience.

I don't know if there is an object called Ekta over there.

I just know my perception of Ekta.

I just know the perception of the sound of Ekta in the sight of Ekta.

Yes?

Same with the computer.

I don't know if there is a computer or a trackpad.

I just know my perception.

The off the trackpad that sentence is an additional intellectual reasoning or learning borrowed knowledge from this world.

A little baby does not even know that.

The baby just knows his or her perceptions and sensations and he enjoys the sensations.

So he keeps playing with the sensation.

He is not playing with the object.

He doesn't know the object.

Do you get it?

It is the same with us.

But we have made certain neighbours and believe these labels.

So Jagat Vityal.

The way I perceive this world,

It is an illusion.

Meet your Teacher

Ekta BathijaSt. George, USA

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