Mandukya Upanishad
With an Advaita Commentary from our Understanding
by Kenneth Jaques | 31,733 words
The Mandukya Upanishad is a short, just twelve verses, description of the material manifestation and the eventual return to unmanifest form of the Universe....
Verse 34
34. But that procedure of the mind completely controlled and free from imagination, endowed with discernment or, of the discerning person, has to be known properly; the procedure of the mind in deep sleep is different, not like that of the Nigrhita mind, described above.
The mind in deep sleep is as though unconscious because it is ignorant of the perceivable. It is without desire and imagination only due to its ignorance.
The Mind of the Realised one is also free from desire and imagination but this is due to being a controlled mind. This mind is controlled and guided by higher intellect and discrimination. This is opposite to the mind of ignorance covered with sleep.