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Swami Sarvapriyananda reads and discusses the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna is an English translation of the Bengali spiritual text Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita by Swami Nikhilananda. The text records conversations of Ramakrishna with his disciples, devotees and visitors, recorded by Mahendranath Gupta, who wrote the book under the pseudonym of "M."
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0:00.0 | So, |
0:02.0 | So, |
0:03.0 | So, |
0:04.0 | Sravana Mangalam Shrema |
0:05.0 | Madaatatam Bhavikrinandhi |
0:07.0 | Bhuri Dajan. |
0:09.0 | So before I start, |
0:14.0 | I'll just address one question |
0:17.0 | in case I forget. |
0:19.0 | Prabhavu had raised it, not emailed to me about experience in Sushupti, deep sleep. |
0:27.2 | So yes, Prabhu, you're right. |
0:28.9 | It is what we normally consider experience requires the reflected consciousness. |
0:34.5 | So consciousness reflected in the mind or in the vriti of the anta carana, which |
0:39.5 | illuminates. So that's the kind of experience we're having all the time right now. With the help |
0:45.3 | of sense organs that reflected consciousness, it reveals forms, sights, sights, smell, taste, |
0:52.6 | touch, sound. With the help of just the mind, the reflected consciousness |
0:58.3 | reveals memories, ideas, desires in the mind. And deep sleep, because the mind goes to sleep, |
1:06.1 | deep sleep is basically a state of the mind. Mind becomes inactive. Therefore, is no reflected consciousness there and that's why there is no specific knowledge. |
1:13.6 | But as you pointed out, consciousness is still there. Atman is still there and the nature of Atman is to reveal. |
1:20.6 | So it reveals that state of blankness. And that itself, you see what is the object there? You may consider either no specific object is there. |
1:29.8 | That's why we have no specific knowledge. |
1:32.5 | But that mass of ignorance which is there, the mind shut down, in that shutdown state, |
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