' Creations of the Mind '...

How can the mind which has itself created the world
accept it as unreal?

That is the significance of the
comparison made between the world of the waking
state and the dream world.

Both are creations of the
mind and, so long as the mind is engrossed in either,
it finds itself unable to deny their reality.

It cannot deny
the reality of the dream world while it is dreaming and
it cannot deny the reality of the waking world while it
is awake.

If, on the contrary, you withdraw your mind
completely from the world and turn it within and abide
there, that is, if you keep awake always to the Self
which is the substratum of all experiences,

you will
find the world of which you are now aware is just as
unreal as the world in which you lived your dream.



- Sri Ramana Maharshi

"Be As You Are"
The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
Edited by David Godman
Arkana, 1985