' Phantoms '...

Even the body is a state of consciousness
only; it is not an object which exists ultimately.
It appears to be there, but it is really not there.
This 'you' and 'I' and all that are phantoms.

You have made a gulf of difference between You
and I, which is not really there. It is a mistake
that the mind makes.

Just as in dreams
persons are there, but are really not there, they
are only split parts of the same mind, one
appearing as the I, the other appearing as you
and both are integrated in the single mind in a
certain condition.



- Swami Krishnananda
Facets of Spirituality
Complied by S. Bhagyalakshmi
Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1986