Dreams...

We dream that we are awake, we dream that we are asleep.

The three states are only varieties of the dream state.

Treating everything as a dream liberates.

As long as you give reality to dreams, you are their slave.

By imaging that you are born as so and so, you become a slave to the so-and-so.

The essence of slavery is to imagine yourself to be a process,

to have past and future, to have history.


Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj