Merging with oneself :: Know your true Identity ::

|| स्वाप्ययात् || ब्रह्मसूत्र (१,१.९)

|| Svapyayat || Brahma Sutra ( 1.1.9 )

On account of (the individual) merging in one's own self (the self cannot be pradhana)

Svaapyayaat(स्वाप्ययात्) : On account of merging in one's own self



Chhandogya upanishad V1-8-1 says Svam Apita, which means in deep sleep the individual soul resolves in the Sat. The intelligent Self can clearly not resolve itself into the non-intelligent Pradhana. Hence the Pradhana cannot be the First cause denoted by the term 'Sat' in the Brahma Sutra.

The waking state is that where the mind, the senses and the body act in concert to know the objects. The individual soul identifies himself with the gross body. In the dreaming state the body and the senses are at rest and the mind plays with the impressions which the external objects have left. The mind weaves its web of Vasanas. In deep sleep the individual soul is free from the limitation of mind. He rests in his own Self though in a state of ignorance.

With reference to the cause denoted by the word 'Sat' the Sruti says, "When a man sleeps here, then my child, he becomes united with the Sat, he is gone to his own self. Therefore they say of him 'he sleeps' (Svapiti) because he is gone to his own (Svam Apita)

In the Chhandogya text it is clearly said that the individual soul merges or resolves in the Sat. The intelligent Self can clearly not resolve itself into the non-intelligent Pradhana. That into which all intelligent souls are merged in an intelligent cause of the universe is denoted by the term Sat and not the Pradhana.