The World is a Dream…..….a God’s Dream Play

At night, at our rest hours, when we fall asleep, there is something within us that does not fall asleep and remains awake, remains at work, thinks, wanders distance places, creates its’ own world and images and interacts with its’ own creations, the images of real and unreal persons, the vast nature, does many physical and mental acts & reacts, takes decisions, enjoys & suffers consequences and feels pains and pleasures, prays, surrenders, laughs, cries and do vast imaginable and unimaginable things. Who is this entity, who does all these things? We call it the core of the cores, “the consciousness”, and “chetna” in Hindi. Is not this power bestowed within us is the power to create, destroy and sustain the “dream world” during our dream state which is nothing but a replica of the power of the God, the Almighty who creates, destroy and sustain our real world? Yes!!! This power is exactly analogous to the power of God who dreams this world, the “real world” we call it. In dream state, we act God with our unreal but presumed to be real world in our dream whereas the God in his dream state, acts in his unreal world presumed to be our real world in the God’s dream.

In our dream state, as we dream of the images of many real and unreal creatures and nature. The real and unreal creatures and nature do not rise and come to our dream world. How it can? The real persons who appear in our dream may be sleeping at their own places and even, might be dreaming of their dream world where, we might appear as a player or else, might be busy in their own real world. Then from where and how do they appear in our dream world? Many saints and yogis have postulated the theory on this phenomenon. They say that in our dream world, we actually use the God’s power blessed to us, to become “Many” from the “One” and the inner “I” becomes “Many”. By this theory, it draws a conclusion that there is no difference between the “Many” and the “I”, the ultimate and absolute “unity”, the “Ekatmata” in Hindi. The “I” and “Many” are the one and the same.

The above also establishes a higher theory about our so called real world, the real persons, the real nature and the creator, the God; as we call it. Is not the real world the creation of God? Is not the real world a God’s dream world? Is it not the God himself/herself has become the world? Has not the God become “Many” from the “One”, Himself/Herself? It should be absolutely true and this is in reality, the ultimate truth. We ourselves appear, disappear and reappear in God’s dream world from nowhere, but from Him and the God’s play goes on and on till infinity. In our real world but the God’s dream world, when we appear, we come and multiply from the same unity, becoming “Many” from “One”, the God and when we disappear, we merge and become part of the same unity, the “One”, the God. The proof lies in the repeated proclamations of saints and yogis that “Tat Tvam Asi”, "That art thou," "You are that," "Aham brahm asmi", “I am He, I am the brahm”, “Me and My Father are One”. This truth has been said many times in the saying “ekam sat viprah bahudha vadanti”, "that which exists is One: sages call it by various names” but we usually fail to realize this “Param Satya”, the highest and absolute truth and divide & tear ourselves apart, remain divided and suffer, which gives real pain to us. Those who rise above the division become part of the unity, the “One”, the God and achieve liberation, the “Mukti”, the “Param Dham” as per the true Indian Sananatn Dharma…the Indian philosophy.