Svapna and Suṣupti Consciousness—The Materialist Theory
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2023-09-26

Namaste 🙏  So far, we've been going through this conversation between Yajnavalkya and the Emperor, and the Emperor is leading him on with these questions: "What serves as a light for a man?" In other words, what is it that reveals the world around us so that we can perform our actions, do our work, and so on?

And the conversation is going in a very interesting direction because each of the lights mentioned by Yajnavalkya in the beginning is temporary, material, and then in each succeeding question, the King says, "But what about when that material light is finished?" Because everything in the material world is temporary.

So finally, this chain of inference leads to the Self as the light.

Download the text for this series, Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 4.3 complete:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1429OJDrW8MHMREQZXU9xbngFI_LC_w1l/view?usp=drivesdk