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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
the world outside us and our memories of it which we get through our sense organs and motor organs. Indeed the antahkarana depends for its knowledge of the outer world on these sense and motor organs. However the Upanishads call this awareness of the outer world, Jagrat, waking consciousness, and the states of mind when the motor organs do not function the dream consciousness. Obviously even the sense organs do not function. Only the antahkarana begins to function with the memory materials already got from the senses. That is the reason for our experiencing the dreams in a sensory manner. The complete absence of sensory experiences is the susupti or deep sleep.
The reason for our forgetting experiences may most probably be due to the sinking of all experiences into this deep sleep state. This may be caused by our fears and complexes which inhibit our memory. This need not detain us of course, for we are very much concerned with the astral form which might well be called the central body with the nucleus of our experience.
That we can have clearer idea of the internal
condition and status of a man through the astral than 434