Illusion Dissolved
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Illusion Dissolved
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The sun is the cause of day and night. Without the sun you cannot say, "This is day" or "This is night." Experience and reporting experience to others are only within the field of Illusion. Had it been the case that I am one thing, and Brahman is something other, then it would have been possible to tell somebody about the experience. See the wonder of this. He who was not born, was sleeping. In the dream, he saw another dream. In it, he achieved Knowledge by the blessings of the Guru, and then he disappeared. When there was nothing, what remained was his "Natural Essential Existence." He was awakened while he was discussing what "Knowledge" means. If you can catch the meaning of this, you will also have similar contentment. There is unity without the intervention of speech. The entity saw a dream within a dream, and he became awake by having arisen from sleep.
Since you have not grasped this explanation, I will tell you again. You are the one without birth. It is your delusion that you are born. It is your feeling. The dream within the dream is your thinking about what is Essential and what is non-essential, and when you realize that you are the Self, Atman, then you have this experience. You felt that the world is illusory. You felt that you are awake and that it is your waking state. You felt that you have obtained "experience," but still, your confusion, your illusion, is persisting as it was. You are yet talking about things in the dream. When there is true awakening, all the sense of "being" disappears. Even the sense that you are the Self, also dissolves. That is called "Knowledge Beyond Words." Now, have you understood what is beyond words? What remains? Only Brahman remains. The bondage that was false, is cut. The ocean of worldly life is proved to be a mirage. Since childhood, when some awareness of this life dawned, the fear of death was imposingly menacing. As the vast experience of the universe was before our eyes, there was a constantly increasing hope to achieve and possess something very great, some kind of property. It was felt that I must have an extraordinary possession in the present, and also for the future. For future births also, it was thought correct to have some great possession. So, a very strong desire was harassing me relentlessly. There was a firm conviction that this world is real, and that the next world that I am going to enter is also real. Now, all that has proved to be futile, and I realized that this seemingly real world is only a mirage. Therefore, not a single thing is to be possessed and accumulated by me. The worldly existence seemed to be an ocean but it proved that there was not even a drop of water. Now it is all right. The Illusion is dissolved. The one who was without birth was liberated from birth and death. The man thought that he had become a tiger, but when he was shown a real tiger, his illusion of being a tiger was gone. He, who was not a family man, was being possessed by a ghost of family life. That ailment was removed and he was released. He was always non-dual, but the false duality was broken. He was engrossed in the world of people, and then he was brought to his own "Aloneness." He was awake, and then he was awakened. He was deathless, and was made deathless. The fear that he had harbored in his mind was removed. Shri Siddharameshwar Maharaj
From a talk from "Master of Self-Realization" given September 28, 1935
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