Passage 20

In English

Now you are all sitting here, you are looking at me, you are listening to me. It means that your eyes are functioning, and you are seeing me. It means that your ears are functioning, and you are listening to what I say. Not only that, but the mind is also able to take all that comes to you through the eyes and through the ears, and the heart is able to enjoy all that you are seeing and hearing. You can argue that this is not an untruth and say that you have seen it with your own eyes and you have heard with your own ears. You may say that you experienced it with your heart, and you can thus argue and say that this is true. But after you have had your dinner, after you have gone to your places and you have gone to sleep, then you get a dream. In that dream you go back to your village. What you had seen in the evening and in the day has nothing to do with what is being seen by you during your dream. In that dream, you are feeling that you are really experiencing your village, your friends, your house in your village, and so on. When you get up in the morning, you do not remember either your village or your house. You think all that was a dream, and you do not attach any importance to it.