Why the same dream?

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Gummuluru Murthy wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
>
> >
> > It is acceptable that the real world is the creation of Saguna Brahman or
> > Ishwar.  This would be in agreement with the Shruti statements which say
> > God created the world.  Our dreams are caused by the effect of the world
> > on our minds.  Of course this is vyavahara.  All such distinctions will
> > disappear on the achievement of jnana.
> >
>
> Namaste.
>
> My apologies for the delayed response.
>
> Yes. It is more than acceptable that Saguna Brahman or the personal God
> created the world. It is the only theory we have.
>
> But, where is Saguna Brahman ? Isn't Saguna Brahman an imagination of our
> mind in the wake-up state ?  I do not want that comment to be taken in a
> wrong sense or would not like to be branded as an atheist. I believe in
> God and pray God regularly. I do Lalitha trisathi and sandhya vandanam
> twice a day and Vishnu sahasranaama as time permits. And I believe that
> it is Shri Lalitha's grace that the world I see is what it is. However, in
> the final analysis, Shri Lalitha and Shri Vishnu are in our mind only.
>

Yes that's true.  But Lalita Mata could just as easily claim that we are
figments in Her mind only. :-)  I don't think we can say we say the world
is "our" superimposition.  There is a superimposition going on but we are
not the agents of it either in the vyvaharika sense or otherwise.  We are
hovewer responsible for its removal.

--
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
>From ADVAITA-L at TAMU.EDU Mon Dec 15 10:33:39 1997
Message-Id: <MON.15.DEC.1997.103339.0500.ADVAITAL at TAMU.EDU>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:33:39 -0500
Reply-To: "Advaita (non-duality) with reverence" <ADVAITA-L at TAMU.EDU>
To: "Advaita (non-duality) with reverence" <ADVAITA-L at TAMU.EDU>
From: "Chandran, Nanda (NBC)" <Nanda.Chandran at NBC.COM>
Subject: Info on Hitopadesha
Comments: To: "advaita-l at tamu.edu" <advaita-l at tamu.edu>

Can somebody give me some background information on Hitopadesha? And I would
also like a reference to a good translation.

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