Commentary on the Panchadasi : - Post-5. Swami Krishnananda
======================================================================= Monday 21, April 2025, 05:25. Discourse -1. Chapter - 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality Slogams : 1 to 5. Slogam-5: Post - 5. ========================================================================= Slogam-5. "Supot thitasya sauspta tamo bodho bhavet smrtih, sa cava buddha visaya vabuddham tattada tamah." (5). In waking, we have one kind of consciousness. In dream, we have another kind of consciousness. In sleep, we do not have any kind of consciousness. There is a darkness, a kind of ignorance in the state of deep sleep. But it is surprising that we all know that we were awake, we were dreaming, and we were sleeping. Granted, there was a kind of consciousness in waking, as it has been explained, and there was also the same consciousness operating in dream. But there was no consciousness in sleep. How did we know, then, that we slept? Knowledge of having slept cannot be there unless con...