I am that and dreams

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The dreams are not equal, but the dreamer is one. I am the insect, I am the poet

- in dream. But in reality I am neither. I am beyond all dreams. I am the light

in which all dreams appear and disappear. I am both inside and outside the

dream. Just as a man having a headache knows the ache and also knows that he is

not the ache, so do I know the dream, myself dreaming and myself not dreaming -

all at the same time. I am what I am before, during and after the dream. But

what I see in dream, I am not. (117)

 

Ultimately nothing is mine or yours, everything is ours. Just be one with

yourself and you will be one with all, at home in the entire universe. (462)

 

Even to talk of re-uniting the person with the self is not right, because there

is no person, only a mental picture given a false reality by conviction. Nothing

was divided and there is nothing to unite. (143)

 

There is no " my self " and " his self " . There is the Self, the only Self of all.

Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine

multiple selves. We both are the self. (137)

 

The one witness reflects itself in the countless bodies as " I am " . As long as

the bodies, however subtle, last, the " I am " appears as many. Beyond the body

there is only the One. (157)

 

I am one, but appear as many. (529)