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bodies is nothing but a dream. It is illusion (ignorance of one’s
Real Self) that makes people believe the dream of three bodies
as real.
What exhilaration a pauper feels when he becomes a king
in his dream?! But the moment he wakes up, he finds himself
where he was before. Similarly this worldly life is a dream. As
soon as one wakes up from this worldly dream, one has no
cause for exhilaration. Everything remains as it is. After one
departs from this worldly life, everything that belongs here
remains here; nothing accompanies the one who leaves from
here.
The worldly life is the dream of open eyes and the other
is a dream of closed eyes. Both are effective. The only difference
is that in the wakeful state, egoism is present.
You can have thousands of dreams at night but they leave
no effect on you when you wake up because during sleep you
remain only as the Seer (drashta) of dreams and the ego is not
operative there. The Gnani Purush remains the Knower and
Seer of the passing circumstances even during the wakeful state.
He is aware of the changes in the circumstances every samay
(the minutest fraction of time which cannot be divided further).
There is no trace of egoism in the Gnani, and therefore, even
in a wakeful state he finds everything to be a dream. The Gnani
Purush always remains the Knower and the Seer of everything.
Fear
Every living creature in this universe is troubled by fear.
Fear is inherent in every living being but the intensity of fear is
within normal limits. They feel fear only when the circumstances
of fear arise. Humans, however suffer from viprit (wrong) fear.
Viprit means in a single situation of fear, one will see or imagine
hundreds more. It is also viprit fear to see fear where there is