Therefore the waking of the soul is from that (Brahman) — 327.

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SUTRA III. 2. 8.

अतः प्रबोधोऽस्मात्॥३.२.८॥

ataḥ prabodho’smāt ..3.2.8..

.. Atah, hence. … Prabodhah, waking. Asmat, from him ‘the Lord).

COMMENTARY

Because Brahman alone is the immediate resting place of the soul in deep sleep, the Nadis being merely the gateway to him; therefore, in the Chhandogya Upanishad it is described that the soul awakens from Brahman in deep sleep. There in VI., 9. 2., and in several Khandas following it, it is repeatedly declared that the soul awakens from Brahman called Sat, ‘coming out from Sat they do not know that they have come out of the Sat’. Had option been allowed, it would have been mentioned that the soul comes out from the Nadis, or from the pericardium, or from Brahman. If there were optional places, to which the soul might resort in deep sleep, the scripture would teach ns that it awakes sometimes from the Nadis, sometimes from the pericardium, and sometimes from the Self. For that reason also, the Self is the place of deep sleep. We give the original passage of the Chhandogya below.

As the bees, my child, make honey by collecting (ho juice of different trees and bring together and mix them in one place. And is these juices have no discrimination, so that they might say ‘I am the juice of that tree’, ‘I am the juice of that tree’; in the same manner, my child, all these creatures, when they get mixed in the Sat, do not know that they have got mixed in the Sat.

Whatever these creatures are here, whether a tiger or a lion or a wolf, or a boar, or a worm, or an insect, or a gnat, or a mosquito, that they become again and again.

That highest God is the Essence and Ruler of all, the desired of all, and known through all the subtlest intellect. All this universe is controlled by Him, he pervades it all and is the God. This God is the destroyer of all and full of perfect qualities. Thou, O Shvetaketu, art not that God.

«Please sir, instruct me still more», said the son. «Bo it so, my child», replied the father.

The father then goes on to give other illustrations, the burden of which is to show «Atat tvam asi» — «thou that art not».

Adhikarana V — The same person comes back

to the body on waking

In the above it is stated that coming out of the Rat, they do not know that they have come; out of the Sat.

Doubt: Now arises the doubt: Does the same individuality which had gone to sleep in Brahman arise therefrom when awaking or does another individuality arise after sleep?

Purvapakshin: The same individuality does not arise in awaking from deep sleep. When a cup of water is thrown into a river and another cupful is taken out of it, it cannot be said that the water is identically the same. Similarly, when a person merges in Brahman in deep sleep, it is impossible, that he should, on awaking, come back into the same body.

Siddhanta: The some personality awakes in the same body, which it left, when it went into deep sleep, as is shown in the next Sutra.

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