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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 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

completely from the world and turn it

within and abide there, that is, if you keep

awake always to the Self which is the sub-

stratum 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 your

dream.

 

- Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

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" Be As You Are "

The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

Wdited by David Godman

Arkana, 1985

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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