Guruji is taking a power nap and his body is in such deep sleep, you can hear it. He has asked me to read a brilliant translation of the Yoga Vasishta in Hindi as his body rests.
The Yoga Vasishtha is one of the most profound of the greatest Indian philosophical texts, which gently reveals upon its reader, through hundreds of parables and allegories and stories, the many dimensions of reality. If you read it like a story, without regularly meditating first, it reads like a bit like Matrix combined with Inception to the millionth power and then rounded off. If you read it after having experienced regular and deep meditation in the presence of an enlightened master, it transcends the intellect, goes straight to heart and feels like the clearest view after view after view of reality as it is.
As is the nature of being with an enlightened master, somehow, the page I start with turns out to be of immediate relevance to my non-dual, spiritual and material life. The pages talk about the spiritual lives of those in a married life, seeking material possessions, experiencing indefatigable desire, being a good father and being a king (manager) with a stressful job and weaving all that into a deeply spiritual life. Those that came before have been there, done that and a compassionate sage has so generously told the story - thank you sage.
My guru is such deep sleep and he is still teaching!
I read a line about how the senses can not be self because the senses are inert without prana. How the mind can not be self because the mind is always changing and there is that which can experience this change. How the self can be experienced...
Without breaking his breath of sleep, my guru in evidently deep sleep says, "Atma ka Anubhav naheen hota, Atma Anubhokta hai" - "the self is not experienced, the self is the experiencer".
A whole different dimension of mindfulness has opened in front of me. Nitya pragya - unbroken awareness, the body rests indeed; the self is eternally aware.
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