WHO ARE YOU – ARE YOU THE ONE WHO SLEPT LAST NIGHT OR THE ONE WHO IS AWAKE NOW?

Did you notice that in your waking state everything else exists? The world is there. Others are there. What you know as ‘me’, I mean the body-mind is there. What you know as ‘mine’ i.e. your relations; your physical possessions etc too are there. Not only the physicality but your suffering; your anxieties and worries, too, are there. Also, you have all kinds of experiences to experience in your waking state. Similarly, all your questions about everything else in this existence are also there while you are awake. Not only but the otherworldly things such as god, heaven, hell; devil, demon etc ,too, are there. In brief, what I want to say, that in your waking state, everything else exists. 

However, all that which existed in your waking state, suddenly, disappears in your sleep. All that which existed in your waking state, are not there, in your sleep. In sleep, nothing else exists for you. The world does not; others do not, ‘me’ and ‘mine’ too do not exist; your questions are not; your worries and anxieties etc are not. Thus, in sleep, nothing else really exists in your experience. However, the interesting thing is that, all these things - the world; others; me, mine; all your worries and suffering; questions; your experiences etc – which, though, did not exist in your sleep and yet they all come up and become alive again with your waking up. 

Thus, in your wakeful state, you have everything viz your suffering; your anxieties; your fears; your questions; your world; others, me, mine etc which do not exist, at all, in your sleep and yet the important thing is that ‘you’ exist. Not only ‘you’ exist very much in your sleep but right now, too, you are the same person, who slept and existed last night, though, without any experience. You are not any different person now. The person in the waking state, now, is also the same person who slept and existed last night. The question which, therefore, arises is who is the real one? Who is the real ‘you’ – the one who existed in the sleep without worries, without any experience or the one who is existing now in wakeful state, full of worries and experiences? Are ‘you’ the one who comes and goes; appears and disappears or are ‘you’ the one who exists all the time i.e. both in the sleep and waking state?

 

Finding an answer to this question is finding an answer to the existential question i.e. ‘Who Am I’? Finding an answer to this question is to find the real ‘you’. One who seeks an answer to this existential question is the seeker (sadhak) or the spiritual person. Experientially knowing that dimension which does not come and go but that which exists all the time is what we know as ‘Self-realization’. Experientially knowing that reality which exists in your sleep and continues to exist uninterruptedly in your waking state, too, is what we know as ‘atmasakshatkar’. Meditation is a method which helps you know the real ‘you’, the real ‘one’ which does not appear and disappear; does not come and go but that which is always there ‘as it is’.

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