Q: We always dream because we are away from reality or try to make our dream into reality. If we do not dream, then what is life?
This is one of the worst lies taught to you. Because your universities and schools in the society are not able to teach you how to experience the superconscious state, they teach you the day-dreaming state.
Understand, just because they are not able to teach, just because they compromise, please do not waste your life in dreaming. Let us not miss the truth. Let us not miss the reality. Life can be lived without day-dreaming, and instead, with super-conscious vision.
With the super-conscious lifestyle, the lifestyle of thoughtless awareness, before fulfilling those visions, you are empowered, you are shown the direction. After fulfilling the vision, you experience deep satisfaction.
I always tell people, with day-dreaming, these desires will give you deep restlessness before fulfillment. After fulfilling, suddenly you will see, they just show emptiness.
This is the big difference between life based on day-dreaming and the super-conscious life.
There are only two choices: either you live a super-conscious life or a day-dreaming life. If you are not living a super-conscious life, be sure, you are living a day-dreaming life.
But there is a great fear, 'If I stop day-dreaming, how will I do my next planning? What should my next plans be? How do I invest my time?...'
You can see: if your workers or subordinates successfully convince you that without them your business cannot run, they will then start exploiting you. In the same way, your mind has convinced you that without it, you cannot run your life. That conviction is what I call suffering. That is what I call the root of suffering.
I tell you, when I say that you can live without your day-dreaming, I really mean it.
You may ask, how do I plan for tomorrow? Usually, you are not planning, you are only worrying. And even with your planning, you are only reproducing the past into the future. You are limiting your growth by planning, because you do not have courage to live with your spontaneous vision, with the spontaneous revelations happening in your life.
Constantly you are struggling with your day-to-day planning and your life. Only the people who have the courage to trust their vision and their spontaneity become geniuses.
Please understand, a little courage from your part to enter into the life without day-dreaming can just revolutionize your life. I can say this is what I call 'psychological revolution'.
Just try this for ten days. In ten days, I don't think your whole life will be taken away from you. In ten days, if everything can be taken away from you, then it is not worth having, let it be taken away! So, just try for ten days - life without day-dreaming. Suddenly, you will see the quality of spontaneity.
Because of your planning and day-dreaming, the quality of having visions is suppressed. If you just remove the day-dreaming and have a little courage to experience that quality of creating visions, the quality of living with spontaneity, you will suddenly see that the visionary in you has awakened.
People who live with super-consciousness never fail or miss in their decisions, because the depth of dilemma or the oscillations and mood swings will be much less. When the mood swings and the depth of dilemma is limited, suddenly you will see an amazing amount of energy is saved and the decision making becomes very sharp and straight.
Whenever these thousands of people living in our ashrams around the world don't listen to what I say, I tell them, 'Alright, let them have freedom. That is the worst suffering; that is the
I always tell people, having freedom without intelligence is the worst suffering. worst punishment!' The dilemma itself will kill; nothing else needs to be done.
Without intelligence, when the freedom is given, it will lead only to suffering. Our day-dreaming also is nothing but dilemma. The intelligence is not there, but the freedom is there. That is what I call day-dreaming.
Only kids need to dream to cope with reality. If, even after growing up, we need to dream to cope with reality, we are mentally retarded! We have not grown beyond childhood.