Posted by: ujl November 21, 2013
Dream and Waking Reality
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The moment we wake up, our dream reality vanishes like darkness vanish when light approaches it. Most individuals take waking reality as absolutely real and discard dream reality. There is logical reason for doing this. When we wake up, we know by 100% that the dream reality is unreal because waking reality seem more solid and exist in such a way that it seems absolutely absurd to label it as unreal. Lets try to investigate what really happens during the dream state. Eyes are closed, mind turns inward and it creates various objects of experience during dream state. In dream state objects are perceived and experienced as solid reality by perceiver. This perceiver is mind itself. All the created objects are mind itself. All experiences are mind itself. During dream, the sensation of touch, smell, sexual experience, sorrow, anxiety are felt as real as in waking reality. However, the moment we wake up these experience turn out to be unreal! We don't even bother to analyze our dream. What is the use of analyzing that reality which is so unreal that it appear and disappear? Hence, people wake up, discard their dream, brush their teeth and move on to their daily activities like eating, walking, studying, working etc.. Now, lets try to investigate the waking reality. Eyes open, mind is turned outside. Mind perceives and experiences various objects outside. The sensation of smell, touch, sexual experiences, pleasure, pain etc. are felt as solid reality( remember these sensations are as solid in dream reality too but we discard it upon waking up in the morning). In both states viz. dreaming and waking reality the same thing happens. Objects are perceived and experienced by mind and are felt as solid reality for the time being. The only difference is how the mind perceives. During dream, mind is turned inward. During waking, mind is turned outward through the help of avenues called sense organs. Upon close inspection we find that sight is not seen by eyes but by mind through eyes. Smell is not sensed by nose but by mind through nose. Touch is not sensed by skin but by mind through skin. Body turns out to be of no value without mind! It is mind all the time that experiences various realities all the time. We are just caught with inward and outward reality. We believe that outward reality is sole reality and rests are unreal as dream. Upon close inspection we find that there is no inward and outward at all. It is all one homogenous consciousness all the time! Consciousness create this illusion of inside and outside and creates delusion. When light goes out in search of darkness, will it find the darkness? Similarly, when closely investigated, mind itself turns out to be unreal! Consciousness assumes itself as mind, intellect and various faculties based on limited attributes superimposed on it. Superimposition is false. And on account of this superimposition it experience joys and sorrow of this world which itself is a long fantastic dream. Therefore, it is unwise to get caught up in this delusion of reality called waking and dream.
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