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This life is all a dream, a dream within a dream. We dream this world, we dream that we die and take birth in another body. And in this birth we dream that we have dreams. 

All kinds of pleasures and suffering alternate in these dreams, but a moment comes when waking up happens. 

In this moment, which we call realizing the Self, there is the understanding that all the births, all the deaths, all the sufferings and all the pleasures were unreal dreams that have finally come to end.


—Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK

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The mind is like a river, flowing ceaselessly in the bed of the body; you identify yourself with some particular ripple and call it "my thought". 

All you are conscious of is your mind.

Awareness is the cognizance of consciousness as a whole.


—Sri Nisargadatta

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You create a dream-body for yourself in the dream and act with it. The same is falsified in the waking state. At present you think you are this body and not the dream-body. In your dream this body is falsified by the dream-body. So you see neither of these bodies is real because each of them is true for a time and false for other times. 

That which is real must be real always. 

The ‘I’-Consciousness is present all through the three states. That alone is real. The three states are false. They are only for the mind. It is the mind that obstructs your vision of your true nature, which is Infinite Spirit (Awareness) .

Why go to birth and death to understand what you daily experience in sleeping and waking? When you sleep, this body and world do not exist for you and these questions do not worry you, and yet you (Awareness) exist, the same you (Awareness) that exists now while waking. 

It is only when you wake up that you have a body and see the world. If you understand waking and sleep properly you will understand life and death. Only waking and sleeping happen daily so people don’t notice the wonder of it but only want to know about birth and death.


—Sri Ramana Maharshi

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