Let me start with a Vichiism
"Dreams often get shattered, but more frustrating is when reality gets destroyed"
On a deeper level the so called "reality" is nothing but an empirical one and is just a dream and unless this is also destroyed realization doesn't dawn. But being far from reaching that stage let me attempt an elaboration of my theme as presented to get a more clear perspective.
You are in a dream, you see God & talk to Him and as asked, seek some boons. Alas before He answers, you wake up. Sigh!!!!
In reality, you go to a Seer and express what you consider a profound thought. Some local big wig precisely at that moment intrudes and the Seer is (perforce?) engaged with this intruder, giving you no clue as to whether he even heard you. You suddenly begin to wonder whether your reality is just a dream. But "realization" that this indeed is the Truth" eludes you.
Dreams getting shattered is perhaps then a message to realize that your so called reality needs to be shattered to get to that "nirvana" stage. Or to be less cruel, you have to "be" in awareness in the present as "what will be will be"......and you have nothing to do with that......
Is the Seer giving you a hint BTW with his apparent neglect of your profound thought?
Think it over.........
Ekalavya alias Vichu
"Dreams often get shattered, but more frustrating is when reality gets destroyed"
On a deeper level the so called "reality" is nothing but an empirical one and is just a dream and unless this is also destroyed realization doesn't dawn. But being far from reaching that stage let me attempt an elaboration of my theme as presented to get a more clear perspective.
You are in a dream, you see God & talk to Him and as asked, seek some boons. Alas before He answers, you wake up. Sigh!!!!
In reality, you go to a Seer and express what you consider a profound thought. Some local big wig precisely at that moment intrudes and the Seer is (perforce?) engaged with this intruder, giving you no clue as to whether he even heard you. You suddenly begin to wonder whether your reality is just a dream. But "realization" that this indeed is the Truth" eludes you.
Dreams getting shattered is perhaps then a message to realize that your so called reality needs to be shattered to get to that "nirvana" stage. Or to be less cruel, you have to "be" in awareness in the present as "what will be will be"......and you have nothing to do with that......
Is the Seer giving you a hint BTW with his apparent neglect of your profound thought?
Think it over.........
Ekalavya alias Vichu
Comments from Cypress folks -Narasimhan
ReplyDeleteI sense in this piece of yours a moment of inspiration, else the parallel between dreams that we have in our sleep and the dream which we see as reality while awake would not have flown with such ease and clarity. I have reflected on my invariably incoherent and bizarre dreams to conclude that their purpose is to wake me up from my extended sleep which is all my wakeful life is and which I, in my illusion, see as an unmistakably concrete reality and full of meaning. My dreams though almost always leave me relieved as I wake up from their oppression to feel "safely back in my reality". They rarely induce my taking deep "sighs" on an abrupt end to a close encounter with God when He is just about to grant me some boons.
Profound as one finds the analogy of dream for an understanding of the illusory nature of creation one is left with serious questions such as why it is then that there is an all encompassing code of conduct for humans that elaborates on a cause-effect relationship between actions that we engage in during our waking state and their outcomes. A code that is declared as a science(Dharma Shastra) whose laws are inviolable. Our dream world is governed by no such law and no sin or merit(Punya) attaches to what one does in one's dreams. The saint who is " apparently giving a hint " about how our life is all a dream is uncompromising about how we should conduct ourselves so as to gain God's Grace and thus obtain welfare both ephemeral and everlasting. I see that speculation as a bit of a stretch though the message that we see as being given to us in any encounter is an interpretation we give to it which gets richer as we progress in our journey towards completion. I am inclined to go along with your "less cruel" interpretation of the imaginary event which accepts the "perfection of the process" as Neale Walsh keeps repeating.As for the dream analogy in general, you must buy a copy of Awakening To The Dream by Leo Hartong and get on with reading it,just now.
God bless us all