[From: “Mountain Path”, Oct 1970, Pg 188 & 189, (Arthur Osborne Commemoration Issue); from the Editorial “What is death if Scrutinized?” by Lucia Osborne quoting Sri Bhagavan (third para is taken from “Day by Day”, Pg 221 19.6.1946)] “You create a dream-body for yourself in the dream and act with it. The same is falsified in the waking state. At present you think you are this body and not the dream-body. In your dream this body is falsified by the dream-body. So you see neither of these bodies is real. Because each of them is true for a time and false for other times. That which is real must be real always. The ‘I’-consciousness is present all through the three states. That alone is real. The three states are false. They are only for the mind It is the mind that obstructs your vision of your true nature, which is Infinite Spirit. Sleep is temporary death and death is longer sleep. Why go to birth and death to understand what you daily experience in sleeping and waking? When you sleep, this body and world do not exist for you and these questions do not worry you, and yet you exist, the same you that exists now while waking. It is only when you wake up that you have a body and see the world. If you understand waking and sleep properly you will understand life and death. Only waking and sleeping happen daily so people don’t notice the wonder of it but only want to know about birth and death.”
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:29:12 +0000
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