yena prasuptaḥ puruṣaḥ

yena prasuptaḥ puruṣaḥ

svāpaṁ vedātmanas tadā

sukhaṁ ca nirguṇaṁ brahma

tam ātmānam avehi mām

Know the Paramātmā, by whom the sleeping person knows his sleeping condition and in deep sleep is able to know the happiness of Brahman without objects or qualities.

“How then do I know the antaryāmī?” Know the antaryāmī (ātmānam) by whom the jīva, like a sleeping person, knows his sleeping state, and in a deep sleep state knows happiness of the Lord with no object (nirguṇam). It should be clearly understood that it is the antaryāmī who daily dissolves the guṇas during deep sleep by his mercy and gives the jīva, whose knowledge and bliss are covered by firm bondage of the guṇas, an experience of his nirguṇa happiness. The jīva cannot independently get free from his bondage and then experience that happiness by his own strength. Understand that antaryāmī is Brahman, with no qualities. Also understand Brahman as me, Bhagavān with qualities. I, one person, exist as Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān.  These are not my first, second and third forms. (I have only one form.) It is said artho durghaṭa iva bhavati svarūpa-dvayābhāvāt: nothing is impossible for you because you have only one form. (SB 6.9.36)

 

|| 6.16.56 ||

ubhayaṁ smarataḥ puṁsaḥ

prasvāpa-pratibodhayoḥ

anveti vyatiricyeta

taj jñānaṁ brahma tat param

That which remains during the waking and deep sleep states of the person observing those states, and which is different from them, is the jīva. Superior to the jīva is Brahman.

“How does the person in waking state remember what was observed by the witness during sleep, and thus say ‘I slept happily.’ One person cannot remember what was experienced by another person.” That which is present during the deep sleep and waking states of the man who investigates those states, and which is different from them, which continues while these states appear and disappear, is the jīva (jñānam). Just as one remembers during youth what was seen during childhood, even though the conditions are different, one remembers the bliss of deep sleep on waking. Superior to the jīva is Brahman. The jīva is not Brahman. Though the jīva is also the Lord because of being his taṭastha-śakti, the jīva does not belong to the Lord’s svarūpa-śakti. Thus it is different from Brahman.

|| 6.16.57 ||