[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Deep Sleep is Nondual Self with objections refuted, SSSS

[Jaishankar Narayanan]

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> Namaste,


In addition to what Subbu ji has mentioned the following clearly point out
that Sushupti is not what is claimed by SSSS and his followers.

1. Bhashyakara clearly talks about a kArana-sharIra in Ishavasya Upanishad
Bhasya for the 8th mantra

 शुद्धं निर्मलमविद्यामलरहितमिति कारणशरीरप्रतिषेधः ।
 śuddhaṃ nirmalamavidyāmalarahitamiti kāraṇaśarīrapratiṣedhaḥ ।
Pure, without any taint/dirt, without the taint of avidyA/ignorance, the
kArana-sharIra (causal body) negation

2. In Brhadaranyaka 4.4.34 Bhashya it is clearly stated that sleep is only
a drshtAnta (analogy) for moksha and the next prakarana is started to show
moksha which is the daarshtaantika (that which is revealed through an
analogy).

तत्र च बुद्धान्तात् स्वप्नान्तरम् अयमात्मा अनुप्रवेशितः ; तस्मात्
सम्प्रसादस्थानं मोक्षदृष्टान्तभूतम् ; ततः प्राच्यव्य बुद्धान्ते
संसारव्यवहारः प्रदर्शयितव्य इति तेन अस्य सम्बन्धः
tatra ca buddhāntāt svapnāntaram ayamātmā anupraveśitaḥ ; tasmāt
samprasādasthānaṃ mokṣadṛṣṭāntabhūtam ; tataḥ prācyavya buddhānte
saṃsāravyavahāraḥ pradarśayitavya iti tena asya sambandhaḥ

3. If sleep has no difference with moksha why even call it a state of
experience and talk about atmasvarUpa as turIya. Instead mAndukya
Upandishad should have named Atma as tritIya.

I have not seen proper answer for these from SSSS followers. They keep
repeating quotations which shows the similarity of sleep with moksha as
though it answers the above questions.

with love and prayers,
Jaishankar