Wake-Up and Dream States

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Greetings Sri Gummuluru,

 

See, you are also taking interest in matters that

pertain to this world of name and from .

 

Actually I was quite pleased to see such important

questions being discussed. It is my conviction that

understanding fundamental concepts like wake-up state,

dream state, deep sleep, Pleasure, Pain, Paapa, Punya

etc. is critical to obtaining insights into the

day to day problems of life and their cure.

 

Dream state is relatively easy to understand. The Jiva

is experiencing whatever is projected on the screen

of its mind. There is very little (if any at all)

identification with body and freedom of action in the

dream state.

 

The wake-up state is much more complex. That there is

a strong identification with the body in this state

and we seem to have freedom to act is quite obvious.

The less obvious facts are: (i) We have fleeting

glimpses of the union with "Self" or the 4-th state,

while in the Wake-up state, and (ii) We very often

slip into something very very similar to dream state.

In fact I would say that quite often we slip into the

dream state, these slips are often triggered by what

we perceive in the wake-up state and body awareness.

I think I have read something similar in one of

Shankara's works.

 

If one is to accept the above description of the

wake-up state, quite clearly, the Karma of dream state

does carry into wake-up state, since the former is

also a part of the latter.

 

Actually Patanjali has devoted a rather mystic sutra

to the dream state (1.38), where he hints at rather

fantastic possibilities if one could correlate the

dream sleep state to the Wake-up state.

 

Best regards

Shrinivas

 

 

 

 

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