Guest guest Posted May 22, 2003 Report Share Posted May 22, 2003 The same lady continued : If the world is only a dream , how should it be harmonized with the Eternal Reality ? M. The harmony consists in the realization of its inseparateness from the Self. D. But a dream is fleeting and unreal. It is also contradicted by the waking state. M. The waking experiences are similar. D. One lives fifty years and finds a continuity in the waking experience, which is absent in dreams. M. You go to sleep and dream a dream in which the experiences of fifty years are condensed within the short duration of the dream, say five minutes. There is also a continuity in the dream. Which is real now ? Is the period covering fifty years of your waking state real , or the short duration of five minutes of your dream ? the standards of time differ in the two states. That is all.There is no other difference between the experiences. taken from: Talks with Ramana Maharshi InnerDirections Publishing , 2000 page 386 The New Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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