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TB-29 Dream State..
स्वप्ना अवस्था का इति चेत् जाग्रत् अवस्थायाम य्त् दृष्टं यत् शृतं तत् जनित वासनया निद्रा समये यत् प्रपञ्चं प्रतीयते सा स्वप्न अवस्था |TB-29|

svapna avasThA kA ithi cheth jAgrah avasThAyAm yath dhRtham yath SRshtam thath janitha vAsanayA nindhrA samaye yath prapancham prathyathe sA svapna avasThA..

First thank you all for your sustained interest in TB.. This will stay even after we are gone in Orkut itself as good guide for serious mumukshus..!!

I just realized that i have been making this one mistake so far..! I have assumed that every one in this community can read samsRtham alphabet.. ! I am totally wrong..! and I apologize for the same.. From now onwards i will give the transliterated version along with the samskRtham version BUT explain only using the transliterated version..! Please check my very first posting..(the rule that I have vilolated myself..!)

First a qustion is asked by the student..!

ithi cheth: Suppose you want to know
kA : what is..
svapna : Dream 
avasThA : State..(then the answer is..)

nindhrA : During our sleep
samaye : time
yath : what 
prapancham : universe (of sentient and intert objects)
prathyathe : are woven (by our own gnAnam coming from)
yath SRtham : what is heard and
yath dhRshtam : and what is visually seen
jAgrah : while we remain in the waking 
avasThAyAm : state (previously explained by me)
thath : those waking experience
janitha : generated
vAsanayA : impressions alone enable us to weave "a universe created by ME"
sA : that alone is 
svapna : dream
avasThA : state..!!

Phew..!! It was so much easier to say this in samskRtham and i had a hell of a time in rearranging it in a language that does fot really do justice to samskRtham..!

Still I think, the rearrange,ment was not bad..! In other words, we see hear feel smell and taste in our waking state.. we also perform actions with our organs of action.. all of these are previously explained so far in TB.. 

This waking experience creates in us countless impressions.. !!

That is why in dream, I can create Sachin playing in the World series cricket finals, and I myself can be the pace bowler that gives him a 150 mph bouncer which he gently and cleverly sweeps away for a sixer while i just take off an fly like an eagle and catch it in space and i gently land like a feather in the middle of a thudering applause while I see Sachin cry fo being out and i consloe him while making Vegetable pakora in my house sitting in front of a TV while analyzing the game when suddenly a street vendor calls of selling icecream makes me run to the vendor with a bunch of little children i grew up with while a tiger comes pouncing our of nowhere in East African jugle safari then we all get into our jeep and drive off and it becomes a british airways plane while the air hostess is coming in the aisle with drink carts and order a gin and tonic and strike a conversation with my beautiful (winks..!) neighbor in seat 24B..

You see how this is going! While seemingly disconnected each one of these impressions have been gathered by me in my waking state and thus not one element of it is untur YET collectively it makes absolutely no sense. and amazingly sometimes it does ALSO.!!

I was reading kenopanishath (KU) once and the slokam that attracted me most was after the teachers teaches the student all about brmhan in most elegant words.. then he tells the students that "if you think you have understood brmhan, YOU HAVE NOT!"

Then one student gets up and says "I HAVE UNDERSTOOD.. manyE vidhitham.." Then of course he explains to the teacher how clear his understanding is in terms of what he could know about brmhan and what he can not!

As an added bonus to me reading this KU, I also happened to meet svAmi vidhithAthmanandhA, one of the best students of SDS! that night I had a dream.. In a vast crowd on a public platform I am intorducing SV tot he audience.. and I say You may wonder who SV is.. he is THAT student in KU who tells the teacher "manye vidhitham". so he is vidhithAthmAnandhA! Nice dream!
I am going to dwell a little longer than usual in this dream state. This is a VERY important concept in understanding the entire vedhAntham. 

VedhAntham is all about orders of reality.. There is an ABSOLUTE order of reality known as pAramArthikam. From that view point there is NOTHING other than vasthu or brmhan or caithanam or AthmA.. this is the niviSEsha advaitham.. UNIVERSE IS NOT EVEN CREATED.!

Then there is a RELATIVE order of reality known as vyAvahArikam. From this view point the same brmahan becomes saguNam. and then the jada or insentient objects as well as the various jIvas or living beings as well as the varous gods, the cosmos, etc.. NOW DVAITHAM IS PERFECT..

The third order of reality is that of purely NON-EXISTENT refelcted reality or the mental projection by you and me.! When one is awake from prAthiBAsikam, we enter vyAvahArikam . Similarly when one is awake from vyAvahAricam, pAramArthikam is awaiting us.! Now do not ask is there another reality beter than pAramArthikam..!! the answer is NO.. why so? BECASUE SCRIPTURES SAY SO..!

So this dream state is really glorified by our sciptures as an example to explain how brmhan can create the entire UNIVERSE out of itself..! If it were NOT true then adhvaitha hAni or negation becomes a possibility.. 

When we gain prathyksha knowledge and act in this world, those memories help up create both sentient and insentient objects in our dream.. Now if we ask ourselves wher did we get the material to create the mountian and peoples and air crafts etc in our dream, THE ANSWER HAS TO BE OUR OWN GNANAM or knowledge of those objects.. this gnAnam alone appears as both sentient and insentient objects in our dream.

So if we are able to create all objects purely from our knowledge, is it impossible to assume that this jagath is a dream of Isvara:? I am merely posing this view not to prove or disprove creation, but merely for all of us to do some internal reflection..

Then we at least start asking ourselves.. "can I awaken even more"?

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