In deep sleep the entire universe disappears as
consciousness, that is, it becomes unreal. Therefore, the different states are
really relative to each other. In truth when the self gets the conscious of
Reality, there is no distinction between the three states.
The term experience must be used differently from
the term illusion. An experience is any passing fancy or any feeling or any
desire which comes and goes as waking or dream.
A mirage is not an
experience in the sense however, a sensation of some object which is apparently
outside the soul ,the innermost self. Thus one will form an idea of a car whereas he will have the
thought of driving the car from one town to another.
The point to be noted is that the dreamer may
imagine himself to be dancing, drinking or flying when in waking life, he never
does any of these. Hence his dream ego is entirely a concocted one, fictitious
and superimposed on reality. Precisely, the same applies to the waking ego.
Waking experience includes the
others because it is only when one is awake that he knows dream and sleep exists.
During dream, he takes it for the time being as though it was waking, and he is
unable to know otherwise. The necessary contrast to enable him to distinguish
between the states can only be effected whilst awake, when only he can perceive
that waking is only a state that comes and goes; he cannot perceive this during
dream or sleep. Hence realization can only be effected in the waking experience.
Therefore, the seekers to analyze the three states.
When in a dream, if one is aware that all the forms, that one see are of
the same stuff as the essence of the mind; it is knowledge; the dream ceases to
be a dream with its reality, and it comes and goes as simply as mirage.
When mind is present then at it is waking experience;
when it is still as in sleep the waking experience disappears. Therefore, by
comparison one can infer and agreement that the existence of the Waking
experience is connected with the duality which is mind.
The attributes however, of the mountain one see in
dream i.e. its hardness, sizes form is in the mind. Similarly, in the Waking
experience, the attributes however, of the various people and objects, are in
the mind. Mind ceases to work in sleep and death However, its basis still
continues and must continue.
Everything exists in Deep Sleep, and from it one gets
the whole Waking experience and dream.
