"In a dream you have no inkling that it is a dream and so you dont have the duty of trying to get out of it by your effort. But in this life, you have some intuition, by your sleep experience, by reading and hearing, that this life is something like a dream and hence the duty is cast on you to make an effort and get out of it. However, who wants you to realise the self, if you dont want it? If you prefer to be in the dream, stay as you are."
There has been a constant debate over this dream and wakeful state and the duration of it all. Sh.Major chadwick had concerns over this and often asked bhagavan about this.
If we all see, the dream state is short and often very out of context or very different from our own character, which we possess in our wake-ful lives.Also, dreams have no method or routine. its often different episodes and so on. Our wake-ful lives have the same characters everyday, a routine and above all continuity. Why is there so much difference or incoherence in the two? Also, is bhagavan also a dream or is he real? If he is to me in this wakeful-dream, why dosent he bless me in my sleep-dream?
There was another question regarding the deep-sleep state. I read somewhere that deep sleep state is one that we should srtive to achieve even while we are wake-ful. The deep-sleep state is one derived out of sheer exhaustion and tiredness. Even a comatose state is derived from ill-ness. How can that be peaceful? that can be at the most restful. Also a man in deep sleep is jadam. He is just like a log of wood. Cannot move, do nothing. How can then activity of a body replicate the stillness of deep-sleep?
Re: Are we all in a dream?
dream is short and wakeful state is long, there is no other difference.
one should find out the medicine for achieving the mindless or thoughtless state.
up, because he (the Guru) knows that it is all a dream.