The dream is mere mirage created out of consciousness. Similarly the waking also is mere mirage created out of consciousness. until one thinks the dream as dream waking as waking deep sleep as deep sleep it is difficult to grasp the ultimate truth. instead of inquiring WHO AM'I'? WHAT AM 'I' ? - inquire WHAT IS THIS 'I'? WHAT IS THIS MIND? WHAT IS THIS UNIVERSE? WHAT IS THIS WAKING? WHAT IS THIS DREAM? to unfold the mystery of the physical existence.
When one has a dream, what is it?
This analysis requires self-elimination, purging of preconceptions. What is the
dream now, at this moment, in the waking experience? If one concentrates he perceives
dream is only an experience, an idea; it is only the mind. The mind is an
experience without the physical experiencer. Therefore, there is a need to
trace the formless witness of the three states mentally, which is aware of the
appearance of the mind as waking or dream [duality] and disappearance of it as
deep sleep [non-duality].
Similarly, all the action and
thoughts of waking experience will be nothing but experience, ideas. Hence all one
is doing is, in the waking experience is, nothing but an idea. Yet it falsely
appears because of attachment to the false idea that all this is real. But when the formless witness is traced and
realized the fact that, it is the consciousness, which is the source from mind
rises and sets is the true self.
The aim of yoga is to empty the mind of its
contents, but this is successfully achieved by millions of men during the deep
sleep state. Yet they never find Truth. That is why something more is needed.
Deep sleep is not liberation. It is not Reality. Reality is existence in the
external world of matter, as much as in deep sleep, but only the Gnani can
perceive this.
Deep sleep is simply having no duality. Sleep is a gift
to humankind to enable them to rest without the duality or without the ‘I’.
Nature of the soul is like deep
sleep. Deep sleep is mere illustration to get the idea of nondual reality. The
deep sleep is not wisdom. The wisdom will dawn only in the midst of waking
experience, which is the state of ignorance.
