BECAUSE THE ‘BEING’ IS NOT LOST
You cannot sleep for too long and you also cannot remain without body for too long because the ‘being’ is not lost. Because the ‘being’ is not lost, you wake up again after sleep and you are born again after death. The only difference is that after sleep you wake up in the same body and after death you are born into a new body.
The reason for this is the information which is stored within the ‘being’. This information, the common name for which is karmic memory, causes the ‘pulls and pressures’ within you. These ‘pulls and pressures’ within, do not let you sleep or let you sit alone for too long and thus make you to wake up or stand up and do the things in line with ‘samsakaras within the being. Similarly, for the reason of these samsakaras the ‘being’ finds another body because samsakaras or karmic memory wants expression and this is how the journey (avagaman) of the ‘being’ continues and this game of birth and death is repeated.
Because of this ‘karmic’ memory, the ‘being’ which we also know as soul or jivatama is in bondage and hence it’s a journey of the ‘being’ and not of yours as an individual. Never assume or imagine that you as an individual are living. No. It is the ‘being’ which is living in this body. It’s the ‘being’ which is in the bondage. This extraneous information which is not inherent to the “being”, forces this ‘being’ to seek and find a body after body.
‘Karma’ or destiny pertain to the ‘doer’. Living life with a sense of being a ‘doer’ is what we know as ego or individuality. Birth; death; bondage; liberation etc; commonly known as duality, pertain to the ego or to the individuality. Self or consciousness is oneness. There is no duality in the Self. A ‘doing’ is action or ‘karma’ and ‘karma’ creates destiny. If you create a destiny then you also have to reap the fruits of this destiny. For reaping the fruits of your destiny you will need a body and hence the ‘being’ will seek and find a body and this is how the journey of the ‘being’ continues.
Thus, both sleep and death are brief happenings in the journey of the ‘being’. Sleep and death are just temporary pauses in the journey of the ‘being’. Sleep and death cannot stop the journey of the ‘being’ because sleep and death are just nature’s arrangement to temporarily rest your individuality. Unless the ‘being’ is cleaned of all the ‘karmic’ memory which is stored within, this journey of birth and death cannot be stopped and will never stop. This journey is of total unconsciousness because ‘doer’ or ‘doing’ is unconsciousness. Consciousness which is our reality, has no sense of ‘doer’. Consciousness is simply presence.
Hence cleaning the ‘being’ of ‘karmic’ memory means cleaning the ‘being’ of ego. Cleaning is transformation of the ‘being’ which is that the quality of the ‘being’ changes. The ‘being’ when transformed, regains its purity. When the ‘being’ becomes pure again i.e. when all the memory and imprints are obliterated, then the ‘being’ will merge with the existence and there will not be any reason for it to seek a physical body again.
Liberation or mukti is when the ‘being’ is free of all karmic impressions. That’s why spirituality. Being spiritual means to consciously set out on the path of cleaning – cleaning the ‘being’ of all information and thus put a break on the journey of the ‘being’, once and for all. Meditation is a sadhana to transform the ‘being’ by cleaning it of all impurities and thus dissolve the ego or individuality completely.
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