Dreams
Dreams.
Chuang Tse a Chinese philosopher. once dreamt that he was a butterfly. On waking, he said to himself "Now am I a man dreaming that I am a butterfly, or am I a butterfly that thinks I am Chuang?"
When you dream you see the events of fifty years within an hour. You actually feel that fifty years have passed. Which is correct, the time of one hour of waking consciousness or the the fifty years of dreamung consciousness?
Both are correct.
Pascal is right when he asserts that if the same dream comes to us every night we should be just as much occupied by it as by the things which we see every day. To quote his words "If an artisan were certain that he would dream every night for fully twelve hours that he was a king, I believe that he would be just as happy as a king who dreams every night for twelve hours that he is an artisan.
(From Bliss Divine by Swami Sivananda published by the Divine Life Society 1974)
Published by liz on Monday, 11 November 2013,
last updated on Monday, 11 November 2013 at 2:56PM
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Yoga of Dreams