Mandukya_Upanishad

never pass such a judgment. You are happy in dream; youlaughed in dream; and you wept in dream. Why do youweep in dream if the dream pains are unreal? You may say‘it is a dream; why should I worry?’ If you see a dreamsnake in dream, you jump over it, then. Why do you jumpover the dream snake? It is unreal! You have tremor of thebody. If a tiger in dream attacks you, you wake up withperspiration in the body. You may even cry, actually. This ispossible. You may fall from a dream tree and have dreambreakingof the legs, and you feel real pain. Sometimes, thelegs start trembling even when you wake up. You starttouching them and seeing as to what has happened to them.You take some time to realise that nothing happened, andthen say, ‘I was imagining’.A comparison justly made, dispassionately conducted,philosophically approached, between the waking and thedream states, will place you in a very awkward condition, soembarrassing that you will not know where you are. Areyou waking, or, are you dreaming; are you possessed of athing or are you dispossessed of a thing – this you will notknow. And that, perhaps, the dream experiences are due toimpressions of waking life does not make matters better. Itis only a way of arguing. When you practically enter intothe field of experience, you will find that this analysis,theoretically made, has not made a difference to yourpractical life. It may be that, if the waking impressions havecreated the dream world, the waking experiences mighthave been created by some other impressions. If, onaccount of the satisfaction that the dream world is only acreation of impressions of waking experiences, you regard73