[Advaita-l] KaushItakI Upanishad 3.3

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Sudhanshu ji
Sharing my understanding-
During suShupti all names and forms also resolve. The darkness of night and
stars also resolve. And when one wakes up, the same stars do not emerge
back, instead the sun rises.

Only DSV can explain this viz., the fact that what resolves is different
from what awakens and is recreated. Because if time is flowing even in the
resolved state of deep sleep,  then that’s no resolution of names and
forms.

In DSV, each moment is a complete manifestation and all past waking states
are all mere projections/useful imaginations created in the present moment.
There is no real causal connection between the different experiences we
recollect as past waking states and present waking states since the former
are mere imaginations; the latter only occupies our attention.

In SDV, time cannot be said to resolve in deep sleep only its experience is
absent. Instead deep sleep is only a restful event within the stream of
time.

Any pedagogical  idea such as “we analyze deep sleep from its own
standpoint and assert that everything “sat-sampadyate’ including time
itself”, is within DSV alone.

Om
Raghav





On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 at 9:43 AM, Sudhanshu Shekhar via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> In KaushItakI Upanishad 3.3 (KaushItakiBrAhmaNopanishad 4.19), the mantra
> says -
>
> ‘यदा सुप्तः स्वप्नं न कञ्चन पश्यत्यथास्मिन्प्राण एवैकधा भवति तदैनं
> वाक्सर्वैर्नामभिः सहाप्येति चक्षुः सर्वै रूपैः सहाप्येति श्रोत्रं सर्वैः
> शब्दैः सहाप्येति मनः सर्वैर्ध्यानैः सहाप्येति स यदा प्रतिबुध्यते
> यथाग्नेर्ज्वलतः सर्वा दिशो विस्फुलिङ्गा विप्रतिष्ठेरन्नेवमेवैतस्मादात्मनः
> सर्वे प्राणा यथायतनं विप्रतिष्ठन्ते प्राणेभ्यो देवा देवेभ्यो लोकाः’
>
> Here, the Shruti says that during sushupti:
>
> 1. VAk, along with all names, becomes one with It.
>
> 2. Chakshu, along with all forms, becomes one with It.
>
> 3. ShrOtra, along with all shabda, becomes one with It.
>
> 4. Mind, along with all thoughts, becomes one with It.
>
> Again when one wakes up, everything is born from AtmA, just as sparks are
> born from fire.
>
> Here, the following questions arise:
>
> 1. Do "all names", "all forms" merge during "my" sushupti? Does, the
> Himalayas, the White House merge?
>
> 2. Do "all shabda" merge during "my" sushupti?
>
> Regards.
> Sudhanshu Shekhar.
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