Wednesday, January 4, 2012

What will happen to these living people within the waking or dream?


 



The intellectuals say only children or idiots make no distinction between waking and dreaming. The point is when one analyzes the three states neither the dream is real, nor the waking is real. Waking is parallel dream.  Dream is parallel waking experience.

 When one is old, he finds his childhood and youth are like shadows. The runs he scored that in his youth years are unreal.  His dating with his teenage girlfriend is mere memories. He cannot touch them. What has become of them? It looks like a dream to him now. Thus even experience teaches a man that many things that he looks upon as real are mere ideas.

"Illustration" here means that having seen the individual experiences within the dream then all having proved unreal, one draws the general conclusion that they are all unreal. One cannot have referred to the dream if one had not seen the objects.

Seeker of truth should not think of objects of waking experience, or he will get confused. Thinking only of dream experiences, the number of objects seen by him in dreams does not exhaust the entire multitude which he could have seen, yet even though he has only seen some instances of dream objects yet he draws the general conclusion that they are unreal and that all possible dream objects will for ever be unreal. This is logic. From this one may draw the conclusions that all objects seen are unreal.

One has to begin with the waking experience. Here again he find a many instances of something like, 'all living creatures are mortal' because so many of the creatures he has seen them die. But he is unaware of the fact that he has seen them die in waking experience.

 One has seen all objects within the dream, and dream become unreal. Now waking objects are with in the waking and waking is also seen.

Objects are within the waking/dream and waking/dream is seen. The seen are unreal. These waking objects are within the waking. Hence they too are unreal. It is the being perceived, which constitutes the unreality.

Many objects are seen, whether in waking or in dream. The men one saw in waking or dream have died. One concludes humans die. But one is unaware of the fact that they die in waking or dream. The man and his experience of the world cannot exist without the waking or dream.

v  What will happen to these living people within the waking or dream?

They too will die but within waking or dream. Individual experiences of birth, life and death are part of the waking or dream. Waking or dream is an object to the formless witness or soul.   Waking or dream is all unreal. The formless witness is real and eternal.