ABHAV PRATYAYA AALAMBAN VRITTI NIDRA
EXPERIENCE OF ABSENCE OF ANY TENDENCIES OF THE MIND IS THE BASIS -IS SLEEP.
We believe that during the sleep we have no thoughts or no experience that our sense organs give to us .So we may have no mental tendencies.And if we have the mind which is without the waves of the thoughts , then this would become SAMADHI, as is seen in Nirudha state of mind as described before . So we don't have to try hard , doing all the practices of all the 'DOES' AND 'DON'TS'. We can just fall asleep and be done with it . But this is far from the truth. In sleep there are tendencies and even though there are no external stimuli to provoke thoughts , we still have thoughts.So sleep is tendency of the mind , and when we experience 'nothing', it is also an experience .
The different states of mind is described in earlier sutra-2.The first 3 of them , MUDHA ,KSHIPTA, AND VIKSHIPTA are are related to predominance of one or other GUNAS.So when the TAMOGUNA is dominant then we have MUDHA state.When the RAJOGUNA is dominant then we have KSHIPTA state.When the SATWA GUNA starts getting stronger , then the VIKSHIPTA state is there.This is when we are awake. When we start having TAMOGUNA dominance , then we feel LAZY, , little more of it leads to drowsiness(in these two states we still have some contact with external stimuli),and then comes the sleep These 3 states are 'natural'states . The two other states , which are known , one is state of mind is HYPNOTISM, and second is unconscious state, are not normal states of sleep.Our previous experiences in this and previous lives are not all active in this life and do not come to surface in this life . But under hypnosis, (called TANDRA STATE), some of these thoughts or memories can be brought to surface , but like sleep when the person wakes up ,he can not remember them .
I wanted to clear one thing. The Tamoguna is INACTIVITY, the Rajoguna is Activity, and in Satwic , there is KNOWLEDGE . So sleep is predominance of Tamoguna.
In sleep we may not remember anything , but when we don't remember anything , we are actually REMEMBERING nothing .Since we can not remember anything that we have not experienced , we must have experienced Nothing 'before.So if our mind is continuous state of single minded state, are we not in the state of EKAGRA mind state, which precursor to SAMADHI? The answer is no .Unless we try it with disciplined mind , it can not be samadhi. And in samadhi , we have 3 things, the observer, the the object that is observed(or concentrated upon), and the thing that holds.None of these things are in sleep .To state in another, when a weak , coward person decides not to fight, it is not out of control of mind and can not be credited.
So in short, sleep is tendency of mind . We do have thoughts in spite of absence of external stimuli.And there are 5 different states laziness, drowsiness and sleep which are normal and 2 abnormal hypnosis and unconscious.
EXPERIENCE OF ABSENCE OF ANY TENDENCIES OF THE MIND IS THE BASIS -IS SLEEP.
We believe that during the sleep we have no thoughts or no experience that our sense organs give to us .So we may have no mental tendencies.And if we have the mind which is without the waves of the thoughts , then this would become SAMADHI, as is seen in Nirudha state of mind as described before . So we don't have to try hard , doing all the practices of all the 'DOES' AND 'DON'TS'. We can just fall asleep and be done with it . But this is far from the truth. In sleep there are tendencies and even though there are no external stimuli to provoke thoughts , we still have thoughts.So sleep is tendency of the mind , and when we experience 'nothing', it is also an experience .
The different states of mind is described in earlier sutra-2.The first 3 of them , MUDHA ,KSHIPTA, AND VIKSHIPTA are are related to predominance of one or other GUNAS.So when the TAMOGUNA is dominant then we have MUDHA state.When the RAJOGUNA is dominant then we have KSHIPTA state.When the SATWA GUNA starts getting stronger , then the VIKSHIPTA state is there.This is when we are awake. When we start having TAMOGUNA dominance , then we feel LAZY, , little more of it leads to drowsiness(in these two states we still have some contact with external stimuli),and then comes the sleep These 3 states are 'natural'states . The two other states , which are known , one is state of mind is HYPNOTISM, and second is unconscious state, are not normal states of sleep.Our previous experiences in this and previous lives are not all active in this life and do not come to surface in this life . But under hypnosis, (called TANDRA STATE), some of these thoughts or memories can be brought to surface , but like sleep when the person wakes up ,he can not remember them .
I wanted to clear one thing. The Tamoguna is INACTIVITY, the Rajoguna is Activity, and in Satwic , there is KNOWLEDGE . So sleep is predominance of Tamoguna.
In sleep we may not remember anything , but when we don't remember anything , we are actually REMEMBERING nothing .Since we can not remember anything that we have not experienced , we must have experienced Nothing 'before.So if our mind is continuous state of single minded state, are we not in the state of EKAGRA mind state, which precursor to SAMADHI? The answer is no .Unless we try it with disciplined mind , it can not be samadhi. And in samadhi , we have 3 things, the observer, the the object that is observed(or concentrated upon), and the thing that holds.None of these things are in sleep .To state in another, when a weak , coward person decides not to fight, it is not out of control of mind and can not be credited.
So in short, sleep is tendency of mind . We do have thoughts in spite of absence of external stimuli.And there are 5 different states laziness, drowsiness and sleep which are normal and 2 abnormal hypnosis and unconscious.
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