Have you ever woken up from a dream at night and been relieved to realise it was just a dream and not real life?

If you’re lost in the jungle and you see a lion then you will feel fear. It is the same fear in the dream state as it is in real life. It’s the same energy.

My point here is that the experience in the dream state can feel just as real as the experience in real life.

It is very interesting to notice how in a dream you create the subject object split. That is to say you create yourself, the experiencer, and you create the things you are experiencing, but it really feels as though you the subject is separate from the objects you are experiencing when in fact you are all one. The witness (the dreamer/the creator) and the subject and the object are all one entity.

It’s the same here in the waking state.

Everyone sooner or later feels insecure, alienated and despondent and thinks there must be more to me than this. Then we search for God.

We are searching for our self because self is our source of power and goodness; it’s the self that is running the show and not me, the subject (my temporary creation).

Deep down we know the self is permanent and nothing can touch it.

The self is true, wholesome and good, made of love. Any negativity in us is acquired, created through ignorance.

Of course to think about this and to realise this and to become this (an eternal being) are different things. It requires some considerable spiritual effort.