[Advaita-l] Sleep, tamas and brahman

[V Subrahmanian]

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 3:25 PM, Kalyan <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Namaste Sri Venkatraghavanji
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> //5) How is deep sleep different from death? If a person is free while
> sleeping, he must be free after death too. Why does he come back? Why does
> a person wake up after sleep afflicted by avidyA? This would mean moksha
> too is temporary.//
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> I dont know about death. As to why a person wakes up from deep sleep, a
> similar question was raised by Shankara in 4.3.31, but he does not answer
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It is wrong to say that Shankara has raised a question and not answered it.
The question and the reply have been cited from that bhashya itself.

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> I agree any internally consistent theory must answer your questions and I
> have not. But this does not negate the fact that in BU 4.3, deep sleep is
> treated as highest.
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The 'highest' cannot be an evanescent state.  There is a contradiction.

regards
vs

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