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THE GATEWAY TO HIS KINGDOM

To gain true clarity we only have to turn to our own experience. Gathered knowledge on clarity is coming to us from without and is ever subject to change. Alterations, changes and modifications are the realm of the world. Prakriti, that which is ever in motion, is the Sanskrit word for such a realm of changes. But Purusha, our own Self is motionless, unchanging.

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We experience changes in our waking and dream states. But is there ever any change in the state of deep sleep? The deep sleep state is like a physician’s sample, a freely, available doorway to the state of stillness, the Self. The ‘I’ changes, every moment too, into ‘me’ and ‘mine’. These are the two branch-roots that sprout into the tree of multiplicity. The ‘I AM’ is ever unmoving, changeless and without content. The ‘I’ contains and equips itself with a name, form, thoughts and a world. All these put together is this ‘I’. It appears in our waking and dream states. It disappears in our experience of deep sleep. Which means it rises and sets. Its essence is therefore, impermanence.

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The ‘I AM’ is ever there. This experience of ‘I AM’ is absolutely changeless from one’s childhood to old age. In the waking state ‘I AM’ is there. In the other two states of dream and deep sleep too, ‘I AM’ is there. The states alternate and change, but the experience of ‘I AM’ is ever felt through all these changing states.

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So, what is the gateway to experience the glory and truth of ‘I AM’? We can truly experience and have a real taste of it by delving into and honouring the God given gift of deep sleep. “One is always in deep sleep only”, says Bhagavan. Plunge within and experience it. You are then firmly rooted in ‘I AM’, the kingdom of God.

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