The way of the bird

3.27 "All that you see and perceive is nothing but God's dream. It is the
magic of God, and it's all wrong."
Before there is any creation, the divine remains unmanifest, resting in Oneness. In that
profound sleep, a thought arises "I am." That thought is Maya, the manifestation of the
power of Brahman. Brahman is no longer just Parabrahman, beyond duality, but becomes
Ishwara, the Lord of the Universe, as well. From that division of one into two the whole
dream of the world spreads itself out. Jnaneshwar describes this duality in terms of Shiva
and Shakti, the God and the Goddess:
In unity, there is little to behold;
So She, the mother of abundance,
Brought forth the world as a play.
While He sleeps, She gives birth
To the animate and inanimate worlds.
When She rests,
Her Husband disappears.
3.28 "One should try to forget the knowledge. As you have got the
knowledge, you are in sleep."
Knowledge creates a whole world, but that world has nothing to do with reality. That
world springs from the thought "I exist." From that thought the individual person appears,
and that person then has to shoulder all the problems and cares of a separate human
existence. It is all nonsense! The individual person never existed. Knowledge is not some
blessing but is the source of all the trouble. Knowledge arises from ignorance, just as a
dream appears in sleep. To feel that you know yourself as an individual entity is to
believe in a dream.
In the Kena Upanishad it is said:
He truly knows Brahman who knows him as beyond knowledge. He who thinks that he knows, knows not.
3.29 "Happiness lies in the forgetting of the world."
When you are deeply asleep, you have no problem at all with the world, whatever the
circumstances of the waking state, because you forget about it altogether. Certainly, you
are happy then, because there is no knowledge of the world. However, there is no
knowledge of happiness either and so you cannot fully experience it. It is only when you
return to the waking state that you say "I was happy (while I slept)." Your true nature is
still veiled by ignorance during deep sleep. Real happiness is experienced when you
realize the Self. The veil of ignorance falls away and the mind gains knowledge of the
happiness and fullness that is its true nature.
3.30 "One who remains on the surface is carried away in the stream of
pleasure and suffering."