Ramayana_VOLUME V with index

Janaka
not take even the food offered as a charity to him. With this, the dream ended
and he was awake. When he came into the waking state he realised that as
usual he was in his palace happily lying on a soft bed, with his Queen and
servants doing all sorts of service for him. In the dream, he was dethroned and
suffered from acute hunger and even the food offered to him in charity was
snatched away by eagle. Therefore, he was enquiring whether the dream
experience was real (is that the truth) or the experience in the waking state
was real (is this the truth). (Bhagavad Gita Part I p. 155-157)
Vashishta Rishi came there. He studied the situation and through his divine
powers he could realise the king’s predicament. He said to the king “Neither
this nor that is true.” You experienced certain things in the dreams, as well as
in the waking state. In the waking state, there is no dream. In the dream, there
is no waking state. But ‘You’ are both in the dream state and in the waking
state. So ‘You’ alone are true. In both the states ‘You’ are present and
therefore ‘You’ are omnipresent. ‘You’ lived in the past, ‘You’ live in the
present and ‘You’ will live in the future. The ‘You’ aspect is timeless and
therefore is Divine.” (SSB 1993 p. 21) You are present in the waking state and
in the dream state. This is a daydream, and that was a night-dream. Neither of
them is present in the other, but you are present in both. You are the Truth.”
(SSB 1995 p.42) Thus, both waking and dream states are a kind of delusion.
To make efforts to recognise such discrepancies is true Vairagya, said
Gitacharya. (Bhagavad Gita Part I p. 155-157)
Ekam Sath—the One is Real. Truth is one and its manifestations are many.
This is the central doctrine of the Bhagavad Gita. (SSB 1979 p.145)
Likewise, devotees perceive the Avatar’s Divinity and humanness and then
doubt, “Is Divinity true or is that humanness true” The divinity that you think
you see is not true; neither is the humanness. Underlying both is the sanctity
of the Avatar. When your vision is pure, you perceive the Avatar’s sanctity.
Divinity attracts sacredness. (SSB 1995 p.42)
He was a Bhahmajnani (one who possesses knowledge of identity of
individual self with the cosmic being) who had renounced everything. Like
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