Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-44

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Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-44

 

There is only one state that of consciousness or awareness or

existence. The three states of waking, dream and sleep cannot be

real. They simply come and go. The real will always exist.

The "I" or existence that alone persists in all the three states is

real. We may roughly put it like this. Existence or consciousness

is the only reality. Consciousness plus waking, we call waking.

Consciousness plus sleep, we call sleep. Consciousness plus dream,

we call dream. Consciousness is the screen on which all the

pictures come and go. The screen is real, the pictures are mere

shadows on it.

 

The dream as a dream does not permit you to doubt its reality. It is

the same in the waking state, for you are unable to doubt the

reality of the world which you see while you are awake. How can the

mind which has itself created the world accept it as unreal? That

is the significance of the comparison made between the world of the

waking state and the dream world. Both are creations of the mind

and, so long as the mind is engrossed in (absorb the attention of;

occupy fully) either, it finds itself unable to deny their reality.

It cannot deny the reality of the dream world while it is dreaming

and it cannot deny the reality of the waking world while it is

awake. If, on the contrary, you withdraw your mind from the world

and turn it within and abide (remain, continue) there, that is, if

you keep awake always to the Self which is the substratum

(foundation or basis) of all experiences, you will find the world of

which you are now aware is just as unreal as the world in which you

lived in your dream.

 

Source: Various reliable publications of / on Sri Ramana Maharshi's

teachings.

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This article of yours would definitely drive us within to reach the

source. A timely reminder - certainly it is.

 

Ganesh Ramachandran

 

 

- In RamanaMaharshi, "saikali6362" <saikali6362

wrote:

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> Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-44

>

> There is only one state that of consciousness or awareness or

> existence. The three states of waking, dream and sleep cannot be

> real. They simply come and go. The real will always exist.

> The "I" or existence that alone persists in all the three states is

> real. We may roughly put it like this. Existence or consciousness

> is the only reality. Consciousness plus waking, we call waking.

> Consciousness plus sleep, we call sleep. Consciousness plus dream,

> we call dream. Consciousness is the screen on which all the

> pictures come and go. The screen is real, the pictures are mere

> shadows on it.

>

> The dream as a dream does not permit you to doubt its reality. It

is

> the same in the waking state, for you are unable to doubt the

> reality of the world which you see while you are awake. How can

the

> mind which has itself created the world accept it as unreal? That

> is the significance of the comparison made between the world of the

> waking state and the dream world. Both are creations of the mind

> and, so long as the mind is engrossed in (absorb the attention of;

> occupy fully) either, it finds itself unable to deny their

reality.

> It cannot deny the reality of the dream world while it is dreaming

> and it cannot deny the reality of the waking world while it is

> awake. If, on the contrary, you withdraw your mind from the world

> and turn it within and abide (remain, continue) there, that is, if

> you keep awake always to the Self which is the substratum

> (foundation or basis) of all experiences, you will find the world

of

> which you are now aware is just as unreal as the world in which you

> lived in your dream.

>

> Source: Various reliable publications of / on Sri Ramana Maharshi's

> teachings.

>