In English
You may get another doubt. You may ask a question that if what we are seeing is all a dream and if all our waking state actions are to be treated as a dream, then why should we do these things at all. Why should we do any sadhana, or , etc., in order to attain , if all this pertains to the dream state? Even in the dream state, some kinds of dreams have the capacity to wake you up immediately and push you into the waking state. For example, if in a dream you see a lion chasing you, because of such a dreadful dream you are suddenly forced to get up and you are in the waking state. Thus what has happened in the dream state has enabled you to get into the waking state. In the same manner, in the waking state also if you regard it as one dream, then a situation may arise when, by the grace of God, you are quickly pushed from the waking state into the state of . Just as for the dreaming state, this is a waking state, if you believe the waking state also to be a kind of a dreaming state, then the state is a waking state for this dreaming state. That is why all the seers and have told us to Awake and Arise and come to the state of realisation. The are also preaching that we should Awake and Arise and approach a state of realisation. We should now ask ourselves, what is this sleep from which we should awake? This sleep is not the ordinary kind of sleep. This is the sleep of ignorance.