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PARALLELISM AND INVERTENDO
two ends and take advantage of it, the circle is over and your sandhyopasana starts. Why should we choose that Sandhya time? The meaning of the sandhya is only this, that we are trying to unite two opposite factors. One is a state of Tam, stillness; another is a state of awareness, consciousness. Sat, Chit and Ananda were taken to be three states equivalent to be, the Sat is sadguna, that one which promotes good, activity, Creation, Brahm. The second one is Rajas, that is chit. It is always in a state of vibration. Ananda is Tam. When you go to sleep, when you go to rest it is happiness, in the sense that it gives you the peace. Every one of us is taken to that fold of peace every night by God himself. We get into a state of sleep. That means you get into a state of peace. Sleep is equal to peace. A state of stillness, calmness, settledness. But in day-to-day life, the stillness is taken to be lethargy. So the Tamasika guna is attached to that. Then the rajasika guna is attached to the chit, and then the Sattva guna is attached to the beginnings of creation. Sat, Chit and Ananda are the characteristics of God as we are all aware in India at least. Whenever we talk about sachitananda, what you are talking about is the unison of all these three, which is the base, which was latent, expressed itself as Sat in the
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