...and hence the duty is cast on you to make an effort and get out of it.

[Guest guest]

>From 'Day by Day with Bhagavan', Vol.II, Sri Ramanasramam; 1957

3-1-46 Afternoon

Question [the fifth of Mr Joshi's questions]: Why should I try to realise? I

will emerge from this state, as I awake from a dream. We do not make an attempt

to get out of a dream during sleep?

Answer: 'In a dream, you have no inkling that it is a dream and so you don't

have the duty of trying to get out of it by your effort. But in this life you

have some intuition, by your sleep experience, by reading and hearing, that

this life is something like a dream, and hence the duty is cast on you to make

an effort and get out of it. However, who wants you to realise the Self, if you

don't want it? If you prefer to be in the dream, stay as you are.' (p.97)

Regards,

Miles