One cannot remain unconscious even for a trice. “ Even for a trice you do not leave my mind.” So, when we say that we were unconscious in our sleep, we refer only to qualified consciousness. We are so rooted in forms that the relative consciousness such as I, you, he, world, body, etc. is taken to be the Self and when this relative consciousness is absent, as in deep sleep, we say that we were unconscious. No body says in his sleep that he is unconscious. He says so when he wakes up which is the state of the relative consciousness. But Sri Bhagwan says that Consciousness Itself is beyond relative consciousness and unconsciousness. So, everyone intuitively knows that there never was a break in his existence, in his being, implying there never was a break in their consciousness.
“The I-thought is like a spirit, although not palpable, rises simultaneously with the body, flourishes and disappears with it.”
Talk-197
I-thought or the ego or the Aham vritti, as everyone is now aware, is the function of the mind and which is Absolute Consciousness broken up by cognition of the thoughts, senses etc. where as the Consciousness or Aham Sphurana or the Light of ‘I-I’ is unbroken and continuous. This unbroken and continuous consciousness is our natural and primal state which asserts itself when relative consciousness subsides.
Sri Bhagwan says that you are ever realized. The fact of your contrary belief is the obstruction. This contrary belief arises because you think that the non-self is you. This is the mistake. By enquiry, “ Who am I ? ”, we should grasp, hold, and abide in the Self and not take the not-Self to be the Self. There is no doubt whatever that by ‘Who am I ?’ enquiry, practiced as Sri Bhagwan taught, the Self will gradually be evident.
Sri Bhagwan : There are no two selves-for the self to speak of the non-realization of the Self. ( Talk-317)
Thank you,
Anil