advaitin Idealism or absolutism!

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On 6/01/04 05:29 pm "V. Krishnamurthy" (profvk) wrote:

 

 

Namaste, Greg-ji

 

I am not very sure that "In the dream state, time is present", as

you have mentioned above.

 

PraNAms to all advaitin s

profvk

 

===Namaste, profvk-ji,

 

I know what you mean. Depends on how heavily we lean on the "is present." But

taking it a bit lightly, we can see, from the viewpoint of the waking state,

that dreams take time, and are experienced to have a narrative flow, as if time

is passing. Yet, again from the viewpoint of the waking state, they don't take

up space in the same way.

 

We can't press too hard on any of this of course, or it starts to dissolve.

Because from the waking state, whatever we know about the dream is supplied by a

memory that supposedly had its source in the dream state itself. The authority

for the existence of the dream state depends on the authority of the information

supposedly garnered from within that state....

 

But I'd have nothing else to offer as to why either time or space is "more

illusory" than the other. Is that like "more pregnant"???

 

Pranams to all,

 

--Greg