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see them. His wife will tell him,‘ We came in while you were counting money but you did not see us?’ He will tell her,‘ No, I wasn’ t aware( laksha).’ The eyes will look but not see; that is called upayog.
Even at this moment,‘ our’ upayog is in Shuddhatma – the Self. I may be talking to you or doing something else, but‘ our’ upayog remains in the upayog,‘ our’ awareness remains in the awareness. It is possible to have focused awareness on the focused awareness( upayog on the upayog) even while this mind-speech-body carry out their activities.
However much You can remain in upayog, it is good. If You cannot, does that mean you have to drown yourself? This path of ours is not one for suicide.
Atma, the Self, and prakruti, the non-Self, are both separate; separate by their intrinsic nature( swabhav). They are different in every way. The Self is not used in the worldly life at all; only the light of the Self is used. If that light were not there, the non-Self( prakruti) would not function at all. Because that light is there, everything in the prakruti works, otherwise the Self does not do anything in all this.
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