'Reality' is a Dream🔗

Many times, people ask me, 'Swamiji, how do you describe all the family fights and struggles so exactly? You never lived a family life! From the young age, you have been a swami. How do you describe so thoroughly?' I tell them, I may not have lived, but I have seen people living. I may not know the exact incident but I know the mental setup from which the incidents are erupting out. I may not know which switch will work for a particular light but I know the whole circuit, how it happens.

So understand, the things which are happening outside you and inside you, things which are happening in the outer world and in the inner world, the WHOLE thing, is a dream. Understand, the whole thing is a dream, including you being here.

There is no scale to say what is happening now is not your dream. People say, 'No, no, no, I am seeing what I see now. The other person next to me is also seeing the same thing. With that I can say it is not a dream.' No.

Understand this example. You may be seeing something, the person next to you may also be seeing the same thing. That does not mean this is not a dream. Because in the dream, sometimes you dream you have gone to Bharat with your wife. In the dream you are there, your wife is there. Both of you will be looking at the same Bharat. Just because the scene which you are seeing in the dream is seen by you and your wife who is also part of a dream, you can't say that scene is reality.

Understand, now just because the person next to you is seeing the same thing, you can't say the scene is reality because the next person also can be part of the same dream. You can feel the next person can also be part of your dream only when you are out of the dream. Only when you wake up, you know it was a dream. In the same way, only when you raise your consciousness from this state, you know it might have been a dream. Not might, it is a dream!

So remembering whatever is happening inside and outside is dream, that clarity is what I call yukti. Please understand, however much you fight, whatever you may do in the outer world or in the inner world, it is nothing but one more long dream.