Kashmiri Shaivism

Jaldhar H. Vyas jaldhar at BRAINCELLS.COM
Fri May 3 21:52:10 CDT 2002


On Fri, 3 May 2002, Shrinivas Gadkari wrote:

> B: I will give the standard answer: Suppose I see a dream where in
> I see Aniruddhan and Jaldhar and I see a car pass by. In the dream
> both Aniruddhan and Jaldhar will seem to see exactly the same car.
> That is to say the universe in a dream appears the same to the characters
> in that dream. So this cannot be a valid difference between dream and
> wakeup states.
>

If I am a character in your dream then why am I contradicting you?  In
_my_ dream Shrinivas Gadkari agrees with every single word I say :-)

Thus if this is a dream, it is one which is beyond your control.  Then who
controls it?  In what sense is it or is it not "yours"?


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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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