The knowledge of dream or sleep can also awaken you
We have slept all our life,but have never met our sleep.It is like a person who has lived all his life with millions in his hands but never knew how to spend it.Or like a personwho is sitting at the dinning table with a delicious meal ,without knowing how to eat it.It is same with us.Sleep is there but we dont know how to sleep! We dream everyday and we dont know what a dream is.When we sleep, we let go of everything.If we hold on to anything ,can we sleep?
In sleep our identity vanishes.There is no difference between a rich man's sleep and a poor man's sleep,between an intelligent man's sleep or a stupid man's sleep.Sleep is Sleep.
In sleep what do we do? we let go of who we are,of our likes and dislikes.We cannot take anybody with us into our sleep.In our sleep we are devoid of our identity,our cravings,our aversions ,our likes and dislikes.
It is well said...."Ignorant people make their dream a reality and enlightened people see reality as a dream! Utter ignorance is trying to interpret to dream."
My dreams comes up in the form of cravings of unfulfilled desires.They appear only in my dreams as fulfillment.I cannt see the reality.It is just an abstract feeling.So, fear to dream.Even this waking reality is a dream.
Now you are sitting and reading,tomorrow you will be doing something else,somewhere else and next week all this will be a dream.what you would do next week,is a dream right now.Our mind dreams more when it is awake.
We have only two states of consciouness.One is deep sleep and the other is the dream state.Day Dreams or night dreams Building castles in the air.The day -dreaming never ends and most specially for me.Then only I suddenly wake up to the reality.
Knowledge of dreams awaken us.When a person is sleeping,she/he is not at all aware of the sleep.The moment she/he knew that she/he was sleeping or this is sleep,the person is already awake.
So, Are you a day-dreaming?
or
Are you sleeping?
There can be only two possibilities.No third one.
