Text: Post-No.: wisdom-l/1999-10-07/503 (digest-marker) From: Mark Scorelle Subject: V.S.Iyer on dream "Until you become fully aware during the dream state that you ARE dreaming, you are not ready for higher Vedanta teaching which gives Gnana. You must begin to practice to perceive your dream experiences so as to become cons-cious that it is a dream in dream state itself. This will cause the waking self to grasp the idea that both idea and the object constitute the whole category of existence. All Is Mind. If this memory that what you see as well as what you think as well as your individual self are ideas then that is Gnana." "Dream is called the second state, the sphere of Taijasa, which means light. Why is dream world called the light world? Because there is no sun, moon or stars, yet there is an entire illuminated world visible to the dreamer. The light is still present there. Whose can this light be? It must be that of mind. The mind emanates its own light, suns and moons. How is it that when we shut our eyes, when we enter a state where there is no sun or electric light, we perceive anew scenes, persons, etc. in dream, reverie or imagination. It is because we experience them by the mind's own light. That which is said to be only mental and inside, is thus able to produce the world out-side. The old ideas reappear and produce the external world, impressions, vasanas. This is our scientific basis for the theory of rebirth too." "You will know that you have understood Vedanta when in your dreams you can say: "This mountain, these cities and people are all mind," This is the test of whether you have advanced from theory to successful practice."

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