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Wukefulness (Jagrat), Dream (Svapna) and Dreamless sleep
(Sushupti) | are states of mind, caused by the Gunas, Jiva is
beyond all these states. For it is the witness of all these states. The
bondage caused by mind imparts the actions of the GUP as to
Atma. Therefore'being fixed in Me, the Fourth (i. e. beyond the
three states of consciousness), get over the bondage of mind. That
will be the (mutual) giving up of the mind and the Gunas. This
bondage of Atma is caused by Ahankara (the sense of " I-ness")
Know this to be the cause of all evils. Knowing this, be fixed in the
Fourth, and give up all thoughts of Sansdra (i. e. of mind and of the
connections caused by mind.)
So long as the idea of manifoldness is not destroyed by reason-
ing, man dreams in ignorance even in the wakeful state, just as in
dream, the ignorant man thinks he is wakeful.
All things, other than Atma are unreal. The differences
made amongst them (such as, this is Brahmana, this is Sudra, this is
Grihastha, this is Sanyasin), the different destinations (Svarga and
other Karmic fruits) and even Karma (action) itself are unreal, so
far as AtmS is concerned.
He who throughout the constantly following stages of life
(childhood, youth, age etc.) perceives the objects in the wakeful state,
with the help of all the senses, he who perceives the likes of those
objects in dream in the heart, and he who brings those perceptions
to an end in dreamless sleep are all one and the same. For the same
memory runs through all these states. The Lord of the senses is one
and the same. (The outward senses perceive the wakeful state. Mind,
perceives the dream. Buddhi perceives dreamless sleep. AtmS, is
the Lord of all these senses).
Ponder well over this that the three states of mind are caused
in Me by the Gunas, through My Maya. Knowing this definitely,
cut asunder the source of all doubts (Ahankftra) by the sword of wis-
dom sharpened by reasoning, the teachings of Sadhus, and the Srutis.
And worship Me, that dwell in the heart.
Look upon this Universe as a delusion, a play of the mind.
Now seen, now destroyed. So rapid is the succession, that it is like
a whirling fire brand that looks circular (on account of the rapid
motion, though it is not circular). One consciousness appears as
many. The phenomenal existence (Vikalpa) caused by the three-
fold Guna transformations is but Maya, a dream.
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