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The person we seem to be in a dream has not projected it. 

That person is not the seer but an object seen by us, so it is part of the projection. However, because we mistake ourself to be that person so long as we are dreaming, it seems to us that that person is seeing the dream world. The same is the case in our present dream. We who are seeing this dream now seem to be a person in it, so this person seems to us to be the seer, even though it is actually an object seen by us. 

This is why we need to distinguish the seer from everything that is seen. Whatever person we seem to be is just a body and mind, which are objects seen by us, so as the seer of these objects we are distinct from them.

—Sri Sadhu Om, direct disciple of Ramana Maharshi
The Paramount Importance of Self Attention, pt 33, excerpt, as recorded by Michael James, Mountain Path, 2020-II April-June 


Michael James assisted Sri Sadhu Om in translating Bhagavan’s Tamil writings and Guru Vācaka Kōvai. Many of his writings and translations have been published, and some of them are also available on his website, www.happinessofbeing.com.

 

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