As Dreams are made of...

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Without the cause

of my own somnambulence

within the eyes

of never-ending peace

falling falling into emptiness

where are the wings

that want to fly

letting go

so love can enter

union of eternal abide

is this a dream

or is it reality

where is the ground

where Being hides

love unrestrained

without completion

whose is the face

where true love lies

heart opened before me

glimmering reflections

a lakes surface burned through

to an inner surprise

awaiting with Alice

within a mirrored morning

to join children who gain

a hallowed prize

joined in a Christening

innocence dewfaced

mirrored reflections

of true loves eyes

 

love to you, dream girl

 

Michael

 

 

 

--- Lady Joyce <shaantih wrote:

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> Major Chadwick's Dream Incident

> Sadhu Arunachala (Major Alan Chadwick):

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> "We are such stuff As dreams are made of and our

> short life Is rounded by a sleep."

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> Shakespeare really did know what he was talking

> about and it was not just poetic effervescence.

> Maharshi used to say exactly the same.

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> I suppose I questioned Bhagavan more often on this

> subject than any others, though some doubts always

> remained for me. He had always warned that as soon

> as one doubt is cleared another will spring up in

> its place, and there is no end to doubts.

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> "But Bhagavan," I would repeat, "dreams are

> disconnected, while the waking experience goes on

> from where it left off and is admitted by all to be

> more or less continuous."

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> "Do you say this in your dreams?", Bhagavan would

> ask. "They seemed perfectly consistent and real to

> you then. It is only now, in your waking state that

> you question the reality of the experience. This is

> not logical."

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> Bhagavan refused to see the least difference between

> the two states, and in this he agreed with all the

> great Advaitic Seers. Some have questioned if

> Shankara did not draw a line of difference between

> these two states, but Bhagavan has persistently

> denied it. "Shankara did it apparently only for the

> purpose of clearer exposition," the Maharshi would

> explain.

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> However I tried to twist my questions, the answer I

> received was always the same: "Put your doubts when

> in the dream state itself. You do not question the

> waking state when you are awake, you accept it. You

> accept it in the same way you accept your dreams. Go

> beyond both states and all three states including

> deep sleep. Study them from that point of view. You

> now study one limitation from the point of view of

> another limitation. Could anything be more absurd?

> Go beyond all limitation, then come here with your

> doubts."

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> But in spite of this, doubt still remained. I

> somehow felt at the time of dreaming there was

> something unreal in it, not always of course, but

> just glimpses now and then.

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> "Doesn't that ever happen to you in your waking

> state too?" Bhagavan queried. "Don't you sometimes

> feel that the world you live in and the thing that

> is happening is unreal?" Still, in spite of all

> this, doubt persisted.

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> But one morning I went to Bhagavan and, much to his

> amusement, handed him a paper on which the following

> was written:

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> "Bhagavan remembers that I expressed some doubts

> about the resemblance between dreams and waking

> experience. Early in the morning most of these

> doubts were cleared by the following dream, which

> seemed particularly objective and real:

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> Indent "I was arguing philosophy with someone and

> pointed out that all experience was only subjective,

> that there was nothing outside the mind. The other

> person demurred, pointing out how solid everything

> was and how real experience seemed, and it could not

> be just personal imagination.

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> "I replied, 'No, it is nothing but a dream. Dream

> and waking experience are exactly the same.'

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> "'You say that now,' he replied, 'but you would

> never say a thing like that in your dream.'

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> "And then I woke up."

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> From the Call Divine, March 1954

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