Passage 5

In English

The individual Will is ultimately responsible for the welfare and well-being of the world. The world is but a mental image of the individual. How this happens is a mystery. One can only say, that just as sleep is the cause of dreams, (Worldly illusion due to basic ignorance) is the cause of Creation. Doctors ascribe dreams to various reasons: indigestion, the compulsions of thought, the confusions of mental pictures, etc. But, we can be certain only of one reason, namely sleep! Dreams are nullified when the person becomes a (one aware of the Truth). At that stage, one gets rid of the night-dream as well as the day-dream. The four have been devised in order to awaken man into the stage. Education today, in all grades, is a process of packing information in the brain and skills in the hands. It is useful only for parading scholarship, dialectical controversies and mutual recrimination. It does not instil humility, a sense of balance and equanimity. Of course, spiritual training is totally absent. Perhaps, the feeling is that spirituality is a solitary pursuit, which can be undertaken only in the silence of the forest. No! True spirituality is the awareness of the fundamental unity of man in God.