Tripura Rahasya

Sage Dattatreya

KING JANAKA said:

Samadhi is simply absence of thoughts. Such a state prevails in sleep and at odd moments of wakefulness. Yet, it is not called samadhi proper, because all the proclivities of the mind are still there latent, ready to manifest the next instant. The infetesimal moment of seeing an object is not tainted by deliberation on its qualities and is exactly like samadhi. I will tell you further, listen!

The unmanifest state, the first-born of abstract Intelligence revealing 'There is not anything', is the state of abstraction full of light; it is, however, called sleep because it is the insentient phase of consciousness. Nothing is revealed because there is nothing to be revealed. Sleep is therefore the manifestation of the insentient state. But in samadhi, Brahman, the Supreme Consciousness, is continuously glowing. She is the engulfer of time and space, the destroyer of void, and the pure being (jehovah - I am). How can she be the ignorance of sleep? Therefore sleep is not the end-all and the be-all. 

Thus did Janaka teach Ashtavakra.

Thus ends the chapter on Discourse of Janaka to Ashtavakra in Tripura Rahasya.