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negation of its antithesis, the 'not-I.' Now, because you cannot deny a thing without, in some way, giving it a local habitation and a name, however suppositional, or imaginary, the act of doing so might be, imagination had to create the not-I, to enable the understanding to grasp the significance of 'T.' In this manner was the diversity of illusory forms created in the totality of the not-self.
When consciousness becomes merged or lost, so to speak, in the rhythm of Self-awareness, it loses the consciousness of the “not-I,” and a state resembling the trance of ecstasy, or sleep, ensues in which the Self knows nothing, that is to say, that in that condition it positively knows what is meant by Nothing, i.e., the Not-Self as a whole, without the distinction of name and form ; for the potency and necessity of the Being of the Self maintains constantly, in one unbroken act, or fact, of Consciousness, this Nothing, a pure Not-Self, before that Self (The Science of Peace, p. 110). This state is not to be compared with the sleep with which we are familiar. It is a wonderful 'sleep'; it is not the sleep of darkness, dulness, or ignorance, but one of Light. It is the sleep of Consciousness itself, and, because Consciousness and its nature are inseparable, therefore, it is a sleep with awareness in it.
This constant making and destroying of the worlds is called the lila, i.e., sport of Brahman; however, he does not indulge in it for the sake of play, but because it is his nature to do so. When it is said that he creates the world by the thought, I am one, let me become many, what is really meant is not that he feels lonely, or has any longing for company, but only that
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