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.
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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.
