Teachings of Atmananda Krishna Menon:
The knowledge of one object implies the ignorance of all objects other than that particular object. The ignorance of all objects in deep sleep means really the positive knowledge of the self, which shines as happiness there. Consequently, the ignorance of the ordinary man in deep sleep is really the knowledge [...]
No. The absence of any objective perception, thought or feeling – which is wrongly called ‘nothingness’ – is the svarupa [true nature] of real, unconditioned happiness. Here, happiness alone is the positive experience in deep sleep, and the sense of nothingness is a relative inference when out of it..
Teachings of Atmananda Menon:
As soon as we wake up from deep sleep, the existence of a ready-made world – including our own bodies – confronts us. To examine it closely, we utilize our sense organs straightaway – one by one, relying on their superficial evidence without a thought.
The same word, used in similar contexts, cannot carry different meanings with different persons. When I say ‘I’ meaning ‘my body’, another understands it in the same sense, meaning ‘my body’. But when the other person uses the same word ‘I’, he means ‘his body’, which is entirely different from ‘my body’.
Every thought merges into Consciousness and remains not as thought, but as Consciousness, pure. So your searching in that Consciousness for the resurrection of any thought, merged therein, is in vain. It can only result in your first forgetting your real nature of pure Consciousness, and in the subsequent creation of an entirely new thought, [...]
Teachings of Atmananda Krishna Menon:
Deep mental activity generates heat, which keeps off deep sleep. Cold in its intensity wakes you up. Deep sleep brings on a sense of happiness and peace with it. This experience we get only in the absence of all mental activity. When we direct our mind to this happiness aspect of [...]