Education is a Process of Enlightenment - 4. Swami Krishnananda.
----------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, August 11, 2021. 6:48. AM. (Spoken on July 26, 1976.) Post-4. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the state of deep sleep we exist in a condition bereft of physical consciousness. How can we find out what our condition in the state of deep sleep is when we are bereft of physical and social consciousness? Our state of being in deep sleep is something impersonal, really speaking. Our body is not there and our mind is not functioning, and yet we exist. That means to say, it is possible to exist bereft of physical and mental consciousness, but ordinarily it is impossible for us to conceive such a condition. The metaphysical aspect of the situation is that our essential nature is revealed in the state of deep sleep. The memory that we subsequently have of having slept proves that a conscious su...