creation of dream world

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<About the creation of a dream world>Quotation from 'Pointers from Nisargadatta Maharaj' "The manifestation of That-which-we-are as phenomena entails as process of objectivization, which is necessarily based on a division into a subject which is the perceiver or the cognizer, and an object which is the perceived or the cognized.The interesting point about this process of objectivization is that it does necessarily take place in consciousness, which is the source of all conceptualizing, and, therefore, in effect, the so-termed cognizer-subject and cognized-object are both objects phenomenalized in consciousness like dream-figures. But, that cognizer-object(which cognizes the cognized-object) assumes the identity of the subject as a separate entity - a 'self' - and gives the cognized object an identity as the 'other'. Thus is born the concept of the 'individual' through illusion, the power of the Maya, or whatever.Once this identification with a supposed separate entity takes place, the concept of duality gets broadened and the conditioning becomes stronger. The separate subject-entity then sets itself up as an arbiter to analyze and criticize various objects, and the entire scheme of inter-related opposites comes into existence - good and bad, big and small, far and near - providing scope for condemnation and approbation.The sub-stratum of the entire creation of this phenomenal universe is, of course, the concept of space-time. Space is needed for objectivization and time to measure the duration of this extension in space. Without space how could objects have been given forms to become visible, and without time(duration for the appearance) how could they have been perceived?"