Guest guest Posted January 4, 2001 Report Share Posted January 4, 2001 advaitin , "Ganga Karmokar" <crystalkundalini@h...> wrote: > Mon Jan 1, 2001 11:50am > Story of the Dreamer > > > STORY OF THE DREAMER > > there was a man who went to sleep and dreamt that he was a king... > enjoying all the sensual delites and when he awoke he sighed alas it > was only a dream.... > the next evening he went to sleep and what did he behold... but he > was a young man walking on a forest path when out of the bushes a > tiger sprang... screaming in terror he ran only to be caught by the > tiger... the pain was excrusiating... and then he awoke.. ah whew - it > was only a nightmare.... > the 3rd night the man again slept and within the dream he dreamed > that he went to sleep... and in that dream he beheld and was aware > that he was dreaming.. using this to his advantage he decided to > fly... and fly he did... in his dream he awoke... and said this was a > most marvelous happening.... and he walked out his door only to find > a yogi seated upon a tiger skin in meditation.... not being your > typical happening he prostrated before the yogi... oh guru please > tell me of these marvelous things... > the first night i dreamt of marvelous things and in each i took > delight... > the 2nd night i dreamt of being young and was killed by a tiger - > the 3rd night i was aware i was dreaming and took to flight... tell > me of these marvels oh great one..... > The guru thus instructed him..... > the first night who was it that did enjoy the delights? > the 2nd night who was it that died? > the 3rd night what magic was truly done? > contemplate this and know the Truth of Existance... > The man sat and found that in truth - there was nothing that was > enjoyed.... > There was no one that was killed... > There was nothing that was done.... > That all that had been seen was only a play of mind within an > illusion of ego.... he himself had been asleep or so he thought.... > and then he awoke..... > What did he percieve but the yogi was still there as big as life... > he rubbed his eyes... wasn't this just all a dream? > And truly he realized the truth of Existance... that maya was the > ever occurring dream and he was that which was Aware of the Dreams.... > But ever untouched by any of the events.... > and in that moment he became ever free... having found that the > illusions of bondage and freedom where only plays of maya and minds > illusions...... > There has never been anything that is done.... That which is > perceived is only a ripple upon the surface waters of moving > Consciousness... but within the depths the Ocean is ever Bliss... > Unconcerned with the surface waves of the transient realm of > dreams... and life.... > > Love and Blessings May all those that read this awaken to a new > and marvelous New Year..... sincerely ganga Supporting Evidence : >From the Yoga Vasishtha Book 111 Utpatti-Khanda 1. It is both by means of words and lights (Vaghabhis ie the words of the scripture and the lights of nature and reason, that the knower of the Great God (Brahmavid), perceives the spirit of Brahma appeariing within himself as in a dream. And he also knows him as such, who understands him according to the purport of the holy text. "What this is, that is the self." * 4: One conscious of himself as a spiritual and intelligent being, views the passibg world as a Somnum (swapnam) dream: and this dreaming simile of the passing world, applies equally to our knowledge of ego and tu or non-ego (which is as false as our cogintion of a dream). Section 2 6: Bondage consists in our belief of the reality of the visisble world. (And our relation with its phenomena Gloss). So our release depends on the negation of phenomenals. Now hear me tell you how to get rid of the visible fetters of our minds). Section 3 10: Whatever appears either as moving or unmoving in this world, know them all as appearances in a dream in a state of sound sleep (susupti); which become extinct at the end of a Kalpa-age. (the events of a Kalpa or day of Brahma are as his day dream) 19: The unreality of the world appears as a reality, just as the heat of the sun presents the unreal mirage in the moving sands of the desert as real waves of the sea...(so the phantasmagorea of the world (Viswarupa) as a sobar reality).. 20: It is this phantasy (of reality of the unreal world), which the learned in all things, designate as ignorance - avidya, nature- sansriti, bondage-bandha, illusion-maya, error-mohar and darkness - tama. (to denote our mental delusion and deception of the senses) Section 4 23: The knowledge of the world, ego and tu as separate existances is said to be an erroneous view of the soul (which is one and the same in all) and there can be NO LIBERATION of one, as long as he labours under this blunder of bheda-jnana or knowledge of individualities. (This is called savikalpa-jnana or cognition of biplicity, which cannot lead to Kaivalya mukti or the felicity derived from a knowledge of universal unity) * 36: But if one can attain to a state of unalterable abstracton of his thoughts from all worldly objects, as he has in his state of sound sleep (susupti), he is then said to have reached the highest pitch of holiness on earth. (For it is the entire oblivion of the world that is necessary for our spiritual perfection, as it is said, "forget the present for the future") Section 3 Kaivalya or Mental abstraction 53; As a disappearance of an appearance makes the observer no observer of it, know such to be the state of the abstraction of the mind from whatever is real or unreal in the world. (This is called Kevalibhava or non-chalance of all things) 54: This state being arrived , all the passions of the soul, and the desires of the mind, will be at rest, as torrents of rivers at the calm ensuing upon the stillness of the wind... * 56: Thus when the observer comes to know the unreality of the phenomena of the three worlds, as well as of his own entity, it is then that his soul attains to the knowledge of kaivalya or soliety of divine existance.. 57: It is such a mind that refelcts the image of God in itself as in a mirror; while all others are a blocks of stone, and incapable of receiving any reflexion at all) 58: After supression of the sense of ego and tu (or both the subjective and objective knowledge) and the error of the reality of the outer world the beholder becomes abstracted and remains without vision of external things in his sitting posture. Chapter 7 10: He who has seen the all surpassing Supreme Being, has his heartstrings all cut asunder and the doubts of his mind all driven away. The swquences of his acts are washed away, (and leave no fear of his transmigration) * 21: It is He in whose knowledge we lose our sense of the beholder and visibles, and who is an invacuous vacuum or a subtantive vacuity himself. (ie Who being known, we forget our knowledge both of the subjective and objective, and view his unity as the ony to on or substratum of all) In the incomprehensible , does my own existence, and that of the world become comprehensible to me... Chapter 10 39: that which the Yogi see within himself after forgetting his personality, and repressing the faculties and functions of his mind, in his Samandhi - meditation, is verily the form of the unspeakable Being. 40: As the Yogi who is absorbed in his meditaiton in absence of the visible world, and in privation of the viewer and visibles, and sees the light shining in himself, even such is the form of that Being. 41: who having forgotten the nature of the living soul-jiva, and his proclivity towards the intelligibles, remains in the pure light and trunquil state of his intellect (as in Yoga) such is the form of the Supreme Spirit... * 52: the mind that is liberated from bodily activities (as in the waking Jagrat state) from its dreaming (as in the swapna or sleeping state) and is concentrated in the intellect (as in the state of susupti or sound sleep) and abides alike in all moving as well as unmoving bodies ( as in the turiya or fourth state of the soul) is said to remain in the end of our being.... 53. The intelligent mind which is as fixed as an immovable body, ad freed from the excercise of its faculties, is comparable with the Divine Mind... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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