Posted on: 18 May 2017
Today Shri Phani asked: While explaining Mandukya Upanishat, You told that angels don’t sleep and hence there is no dream-state for them. But, the state of Taijasa represents dream only. Does this fact apply to angels (energetic forms of souls) and to Narayana also (energetic incarnation)?
Swami Replied: In the case of angels, there is no dream-state due to the absence of sleep. The deep sleep is also absent. Only the state of awakening is present, which is exactly similar to the dream state of human beings. In the dream state of human beings and also in the awaken state of angels the similarity exists because in both states only energy and awareness exist. Due to this similarity, you should not mistake the awakening state of angels to be their dream state since angels do not sleep. This awakening state of angels can be compared to the dream state of human beings due to similarity. In the case of angels, only the awakening state exists in which awareness and energy exist. In the awaken state of human beings, matter also exists apart from awareness and energy. This matter differentiates the awakening state of human beings from the awakening state of angels. The seer or witness without the unimaginable God as well as the seen always contain the same components.
Before the entry of unimaginable God, Narayana is also an energetic form containing energy and awareness like any other angel. The properties of the medium don’t change by the entry of God. Hence, the energetic form of Narayana also doesn’t have sleep and thus doesn’t have deep sleep and dream. It also has one state of awakening in which energy and awareness alone exist as the object in the upper world as well as the medium of seer. Due to the entry of the unimaginable God in to this energetic form, Narayana becomes omniscient and omnipotent. Due to this merge of unimaginable God, Narayana is the unimaginable God for all practical purposes for the angels. Similarly the materialised form, Krishna, is the unimaginable God for all practical purposes for the human souls here. The medium of God in the upper world or on this earth is maintaining its own properties as the other souls in their bodies maintain. The unimaginable God in Narayana or Krishna doesn’t interfere with the properties of the medium into which He entered, pervaded and merged. The difference between Narayana and Krishna is that the external energetic medium (body) of Narayana remains forever whereas the external body of Krishna is destroyed like any other human body on this earth. The body of Krishna has all the three states of deep sleep (Praajna), dream (Taijasa) and awakening (Vishva). In the deep sleep of Krishna, the unimaginable God called as unimaginable awareness is the witness (sakshi) that exists though the relative awareness of the body disappeared. Hence, this unimaginable awareness or unimaginable God (since two unimaginable items can’t exist) is mentioned as the awareness of deep sleep. This unimaginable awareness is also indicated by 5 adjectives like creator of world etc. Hence, the three states explained here refer to the example of human incarnation and not to the human beings. Apart from these three states, the fourth state (Amaatra) is also mentioned, which clearly projects the state of unimaginable God. In the dream state of Krishna, the body of witness (sakshi) of the upper worlds made of energy and awareness exists in the form of Narayana or Datta. In this dream state the relative awareness of the body also exists in which the unimaginable awareness is dissolved. In the awakening state also the relative awareness exists in which the unimaginable awareness is merged that becomes the witness of the world containing matter, energy and awareness. Thus, the unimaginable God enjoys the upper worlds through Narayana or Datta and enjoys a materialised world through Krishna. Such witness of the creation by merging with the medium brings the entertainment to the full extent with more and more clarity. The important point here to note is that the example described here is not human being but human incarnation. If you say that the human being is explained here, two factors contradict this: 1) In deep sleep awareness should not exist and even if it exists as per your foolishness, such awareness can’t have the five adjectives described there and 2) there is no need of mentioning the Amaatra state of silence (silence indicates the unimaginable God) in the case of ordinary human being, which is totally imaginable in and out.