Uta jaage vahaa re aataa | Smaran karaa Pandareenaatha
Ramkrishnahari. Our daily life is like a ‘bracket’. There is a “(“ which denotes the opening of our day which is waking up. There is also a “)” which denotes the closing of our day which is going to sleep. What happens in between the “( “ & “ )” is what we call as ‘life’. Let’s look at this a little deeper. - “)” will not be relevant if there is no “(“. In other words, if we do not wake up, there is no sleep. - Waking up brings with it awareness of everything around us. Sleep is a dissolution of everything around us. - Waking up therefore brings consciousness along with it. - In the material plane, waking is always associated with light. Sleep is associated with darkness. - Coming to the spiritual plane, waking corresponds to the awakening of the self, connoted as ‘jnaana’. Anyone whose self is not awakened is in sleep which is connoted as ‘ajnaana’. - In the material plane, while both waking and sleeping are