WHY LIFE IS A DREAM (IMAGINED)

What is the purpose of life?

Life (or existence) is the self experiencing and self expression of the Self within itself.

Hence mystics sum up existence as "Raab Di Leela" (its all the play of the Infinite) which alone exists.

So whatever the Self creates has to be placed within itself, since there is no other reality within which to place it.

Just as ocean and wave are indivisible (as water), the creator and creation are indivisible (both being consciousness).

In personal terms if nothing existed except you, whatever you created would have to be placed within yourself.

Where else could any creation be placed if you alone existed?

Hence the Creator and creation can never be separate.

The desire to experience and express arises as spontaneously as our dreams each night. Who intends to dream?

Yet it occurs without intention, such is the nature of consciousness: to imagine experiences.

Experiences cannot be perceived except through contrasts between opposites (such as good and bad, hot and cold).

Without contrasts between dualities (opposites), experiences cannot be perceived.

Yet the Creator alone exists without any contrasts, so for sake of play (experiences), contrasts are imagined.

Creation is an illusion (a dream) withinthe infinite for the sake of play (leela).

One forgets one's real Self to increase the reality of dreams, the greater the virtual reality, the more stimulating the experience.

Experiences require separation, hence the Infinite can never be experienced since it alone exists without separation.

Experiencing the Infinite is as impossible as looking at your own face, since one can never separate to look at one's face.

Even looking in a thousand mirrors, its only a reflection of your face: not your real face.

You can never separate from what you are (to experience what you are).

Just as sugar cannot taste sugar (being sugar itself), the absolute truth of your true Self can only be realized.

To know your Self (the awareness 'I' exist), simply be quiet (cease thoughts) to realize your true nature (as consiousness).

Awareness alone is the source within which the world appears, just as the world imagined within your awareness during sleep.

All paths to truth are simply the means, realizing (knowing) your true Self (as awareness) is the sole end.

Since awareness is devoid of any material substance or space, there is never any change (movement or transformation within it).

No experiences or creation ever exist, except as a dream within your true nature as consciousness (the Self).

Realizing this, play as you wish.

by Pardeep