Maharshi's Gospel - 82

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D. As I said before, we see, feel, and sense the world in so many ways.

These sensations are the reactions to the objects seen, felt, etc.

and are not mental creations as in dreams, which differ not only

from person to person but also with regard to the same person.

Is that not enough to prove the objective reality of the world?

 

 

Maharshi:

 

All this talk about inconsistencies and their attributions to the dream

world arises nly now,when you are awake. While you were dreaming,

the dream was a perfect integrated whole. That is to say, if you felt

thirsty in a dream, the illusory drinking of illusory water did quench

your illusory thirst. But all this was real and not illusory to you so long

as you did not know that the dream itself was illusory. Similarly with

the waking world; and the sensations you now have get coordinated

to give you the impression that the world is real.

If, on the contrary, the world is a self-existent reality ( that is what you

evidently mean by its objectivity), what prevents the world from revealing

itself to you in sleep? You do not say you have not existed in your sleep.