[Advaita-l] waking, dreaming, sleeping, as mutually supportive

[Michael Shepherd]

Yes, I agree totally. The desirable state is to allow the light of atman to
pass unclouded through the clear glass of buddhi -- or be reflected
perfectly from it -- and illuminate all actions in its purity. In terms of
the 'four states', wouldn't this be to allow this 'fourth state' of perfect
function of the other states, which is atman, to illuminate whatever may be
shared on occasion between those states, whil allowing each of those states
to be complete in itself ?

Doesn't this actually happen anyway in the cycle of a day, without our
conscious knowledge ? It takes care of itself. My personal interest in the
process is simply concerned with the lack of discussion of the 'dreaming' --
or as I would prefer to call it, the 'thoughful' -- state, in relation to
the mysterious process of 'imagination' which fuels the arts and even
'factual' presengtation, and which can open or 'melt' the closed chitta in
their audience. Obviously the power of atman as truth behind this 'dreaming'
of artists and dancers and writers, lies behind all the arts. I guess it's
outside the range of philosophers; and theologians would look for 'praise'
in the arts.

Michael.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:advaita-l-bounces at lists.advaita-vedanta.org]On Behalf Of
Shrinivas Gadkari
Sent: 06 November 2009 05:24
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Subject: [Advaita-l] waking, dreaming, sleeping, as mutually supportive



Namaste,

One important point on this topic:

By incorporating the wisdom of states of consciousness and their
interrelationship may make us more capable beings. There however
is no guarantee that just this knowledge itself will guide people on
the "correct" path. We need to connect this knowledge to "something"
that will help us from starying on wrong path, help us to use only that
much vidyA that our mind-body (and also our surroundings) can handle, ...

Bhakti towards sadguru or hari bhakti - which is no different from
sadguru bhakti (finally) are time tested disciplines which achieve these
goals (and more). hari om.
(bhakti here means the standard dvaita, saguNa bhakti)

Regards,
Shrinivas



----- Original Message ----
From: Shrinivas Gadkari <sgadkari2001 at yahoo.com>
To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 5:15:23 PM
Subject: waking, dreaming, sleeping, as mutually supportive

Namaste Shri Sunil,

I think you are on right track here. Every person who is successful in
a vyAvahArika sense, has some degree of siddhi of the vidyA that is
described in mANDukya upanishad. It is a different matter that most
people may not know that the source of their skills lies in their innate
ability to use this vidyA of mADUkya upanishad in their daily lives.
(very likely these people studied this vidyA in their previous lives).

It is said that the only vidyA one needs to learn is the vidyA described
in mANDukya upanishad. (I think this is a statement made by shrI rAma
to shrI hanumAna.)

Regards,
Shrinivas  



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Dear Michael,
Can we say that during the night-dreaming the subconscious mind can act
on a problem and that can give some indication of things going to happen in
the future but in day-dreaming the sub-conscious mind would not act that
freely.
 I understand that with training one can however train the sub-conscious
mind
to analyse problems even in the waking sate. Some executives light a
cigarette
and keep quiet fort a short while and leave the problem to the sub-conscious
mind to analyse and by the time cigarette is half smoked the answers are
ready.
Some people believe like that. I too subscribe to that thinking to some
extent
though I do not smoke. Any comment?

Regards,
Sunil

 


----- Original Message ----
From: Shrinivas Gadkari <sgadkari2001 at yahoo.com>
To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 11:54:38 AM
Subject: waking, dreaming, sleeping, as mutually supportive

Namaste,

Revisiting this thread after several days:
In our daily experience we are awake, we sleep and we
see dreams. Now we have three states of consciousness
"awake state", "dream state" and "sleep state".

Based on my understanding and experience it will be too
hasty a conclusion to equate:
"awake state" = what we commonly mean by "awake experience",
"dream state" = what we commonly mean by "dream experience",
"sleep state" = what we commonly mean by "sleep experience".

It is true that "dream state" dominates the "dream experience",
and "sleep state" dominates the "deep sleep experience",
However, the "awake experience" (based on my understanding)
is quite complex. Though the "awake state" is easily
recognized in "awake experience", there are interspersed
experiences of "dream state" and "sleep state" in
the "awake experience". Recognizing/ examining this
phenomenon, in my opinion, forms the foundation for
study/ exploration/ understanding of the three states
of consciousness. hari om.

Regards,
Shrinivas



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