[Advaita-l] Enlightenment Rests on the Dream

[sreenivasa murthy]

Dear Friends,

All  beings  are having two  natures.  The first  one  is intrinsic  nature  which neither  appears  or  disappears. The  second  one  is  adventious one  which  appears and  disappears.  The intrinsic one  is  one’s true svarUpa  whereas  the adventious  is  not 

 his  true svarUpa.

 

Mantra 2-1-4  ofKathopanishad utilizes the experiences  of  waking and  dream  which happen to  all  to  allhuman  beings  and helps  one  to  recognize / discover  one’s  intrinsic nature  which  is mahAntam. viBum  and  AtmAnam. The  following  study material  which  is based  on  Upanishads reveals  the  methodology in  detail.

 

Let  us  compare waking  and  dream. 

The  resemblance  between the  two  states is  so  complete that  

we  must  confess they  cannot  be identified  severally  by  

distict  marks  when each  presents  itself severally  by 

 distinct  marks when  each  presents itself  to  our experience.

We  might  go even  so  far as  to  think that  the action  of  the

 dream-mind  being so  faint  was quite  different  from the  waking-mind.  

BUT  ARE  THE TWO  EGOS  SAME ?  

When  he  wakes, behold!  He  finds himself  transformed  

into  the  waking ego  with  relations to  another 

 world  now with  other  interests. 

He  recollects  his dream  and  has a  hearty  laugh 

 at  its illusive  shows. 

 WHAT  THEN IS  THE  COMMON ELEMENT  IN  BOTH? 

Not  the  physical body,  the  senses, the  mind,  


the  objects  or  even the  ego  ,  


for  the  behaviour of  the  mind and  the  senses 


was  peculiar  in each    state and  


the  body and  objects   were certainly  not  identical.

The  only  common and  constant  factor in  both  is 

 LIFE  or UNDIFERENTIATED  CONSCIOUSNESS.  

One  who    cognizes the  above  stated facts  of  life  

within  himself  by himself  will  be  

an  Atmavit /Atmajnani.

Thus  taught  my Revered  Guru.

With  respectful  namaskars,

Sreenivasa Murthy. 

  


    On Saturday, 27 April, 2019, 1:23:29 pm IST, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:  
 
 An article:

https://taooflightyoga.com/index.php/blog/enlightenment-rests-on-the-dream

//The concept of awakening is predicated on the idea that before he became
the Buddha, Gautama was in some sense asleep and dreaming. This trope is at
the heart of Buddhism and even appears in the Upanishads, a collection of
Sanskrit texts that predate Buddhism by centuries. The conviction that
birth and death are an illusion (Skt., maya) has served as the pivot point
around which turn all the philosophies and practices that make up the
spiritual life of India. //

regards
subbu
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