By Swami Krishnananda
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Your real nature is aloneness, not sociability. Your real nature is kevalata, not indriya-samyoga with vishayas, objects. Your real nature is singularity, not multiplicity. Your real nature is a total transcendence of all sensory and mental phenomena, not contact with objects. Therefore you are ānandamaya, ānandabhuk: filled with bliss, enjoying bliss. What do you eat in deep sleep, which gives you so much satisfaction? Ānanda alone is your food, not bread, dal, kheer, rasagulla, laddu. You get nothing of that kind in sleep, and yet you are more happy there than when you have a sumptuous dinner or a meal.
Eṣha yonih sarvasya prabhāvapyayau: He is the womb of all things. All things come from Him as the tree comes from a seed. The tree may be vast in its extent in space; yet, it is all hidden in its potentiality in the seed. The future structure or the shape and the nature of the tree is already determined by the content of the seed. It is not that some new thing comes up when there is germination of the seed. Whatever was in the seed, that alone comes out in the form of an effect, namely, the plant, and the tree.
We remain in a state of half-consciousness, and we plunge into our usual activities afterwards; so that we do not meditate upon this intervening period between deep sleep and waking consciousness in terms of the outer world. We have a subtle feeling of our ‘being’, before we become aware of the world outside. We are not asleep; we have woken up; and yet we are not fully aware of the samsāra that is outside us. This state of consciousness where it is aware that it is, and yet not aware that other things are, is the state of I-am-ness, asmitva, aham-asmi, that can be a feeble apology for Reality.