Sri Ramana Maharshi
There is no difference between a jnani and an ajnani in their conduct. The difference lies only in their angles of vision. The ignorant man identifies himself with the ego and mistakes its activities for those of the Self, whereas the ego of the jnani has been lost and he does not limit himself to this body or that, this event or that, and so on.
There is action in seeming inaction, and also inaction in seeming action as in the following instances:
1. A child is fed while asleep. On waking up the next morning, he denies having been fed. It is a case of inaction in seeming action. For although the mother saw him take his food the child himself is not aware.
2. The cartman sleeps in the cart when it jogs along the way in the night and yet he reaches the destination and claims to have driven the cart. This is a case of action in seeming inaction.
3. A man appearing to listen to a story nods his head to the speaker but yet his mind is otherwise active and he does not really follow the story.
4. Two friends sleep side by side. One of them dreams that both of them travel round the globe and have varied experiences. On waking the dreamer tells the other that both of them have been round the earth. The other treats the story with contempt.
The lady (visitor) protested that dream and sleep do not make any appeal to her. She was asked why then she should be careful about her bed unless she courted sleep.
She said that it was for relaxation of the exhausted limbs, rather a state of auto-intoxication. “The sleep state is really dull, whereas the waking state is full of beautiful and interesting things.”
Maharshi: What you consider to be filled with beautiful and interesting things is indeed the dull and ignorant state of sleep, according to the Jnani: Ya nisha sarva bhootanam tasyam jagrati samyami.
The wise one is wide awake just where darkness rules for others. You must certainly wake up from the sleep which is holding you at present.
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