In English
Man fails to benefit by the daily experience
In the waking state, the senses have free play. The gross body is most active then. In the dream stage, the senses subsist in their subtle form. The mind revels in its fancies then. In the dream, the subtle body is active. It creates many attractive and astounding scenes and incidents for its own edification. In the deep sleep state, the mind along with the subtle aspects of the senses are submerged in the ego or the causal body. This is .the (vacant) stage, according to Vedanthic terminology. It is vacant because there is no positive gain associated with it. It does not confer awareness of' the (Divine Self) and the Bliss of that Awareness. That can happen only in the fourth state after the (gross), (subtle), (causal). That state is named the (supercausal). The waking state is the gross region of , the Creator, when activity abounds. It merges in the dream, the region, when mere (existence) abounds. That too merges in deep sleep, when both dissolve and lose their identity in (). The fact to remember is that every individual, every day, experiences (, Creator), (, Maintenance) and (, Dissolution). But, he fails to recognise it and benefit by the experience. He mistakes birth as creation and death as dissolution. This is sheer ignorance. One has to transcend these three changes and establish himself in the stable unchanging , the . One has to be cautioned against believing that the victories over senses, mind, innate tendencies and the attainment of the Awareness can be won one at a time. Parallel efforts must be made in all four from the very beginning. You cannot place oil in one place, the lamp in another and the match in a third and hope for light. One has to succeed in mastering the senses, conquering the mind and eliminating the all at the same time.