[Advaita-l] Jivas abode during deepsleep.

[Srikanta Narayanaswami]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Praveen R. Bhat <bhatpraveen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hari Om, Subbuji,
>
> Its surely a good coincidence that I was just debating this since the past
> few days with someone out here. To my surprise, today we visited this exact
> reference of Bhagavatpada's bhAShya, but as I remember this bhAshya occurs
> at 2nd Karika after 6th Mandukya mantra, not 2nd mantra itself. (This is
> meant only FYI for those wanting to refer to Sw.Gambhirananda's
> translation).
>

Thanks for the correction.

>
> Bhagavatpada does say here that it is not the seedless brahman that is
> meant, but the unmanifested, quoting two doshas that would accrue if it
> were to be the seedless brahman that the jIva merges into during suShupti.
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In deepsleepstate,the jiva is is in "Bija nidra"the seed of sleep or igorance regarding "Brahman".The karika itself says,;"Bijanidra yutah"
N.Srikanta.