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down, from there you can see stars in the sky even in the day. They are there, but because of so much light
you cannot see them. Darkness is needed for them to be revealed.
The same happens with dreaming; dreams are there in the day also, but darkness is needed so that you
can see them. It is just like when you go to a theater. If the doors are open the film may continue but you
cannot see. Close the doors, make the room dark, and you can see.
Dreaming is your continuity, and unless this continuity is broken you cannot know what truth is. The
question is not whether truth is very far away or near, the question is whether the mind is in a dream or not.
So the basic problem is not how to seek the truth; you cannot seek with a dreaming mind, because
whatsoever will come before you, your dreams will be imposed on it. Your dreams will be projected on it,
you will interpret it. You will not be able to see as it is. You will see according to your dreams, you will
falsify it. Truth IS there, because only truth can be -- untruth cannot be.
So another thing before we enter the sutra: Shankara has divided reality in three categories, and those
categories are beautiful to understand. One category is the category of the truth: that which is. In fact
nothing else is possible; only truth is and only truth can be.
The second category is of that which is untruth, which cannot be. No possibility of its being there,
because how can untruth be? For being, truth is needed. So untruth is non-being, truth is being. Then
Shankara finds a third category that he calls dreaming, appearance, illusion, maya: that which appears to be
but is not.
So three categories. Truth, that which is. If your eyes are clear, unclouded, if the mind is not dreaming,
then there is only one category -- truth. But if your mind is dreaming then two other categories come into
existence.
Dream IS, in a certain sense, because you dream it. And it is not, in a different certain sense, because it
corresponds to no reality. You dream in the night that you have become a king. In the morning you find you
are just the same beggar. The dream was false, but the dream was, so it HAS a quality of truth about it
because it happened. And in those moments when it was happening you completely believed in its truth,
otherwise it would have stopped immediately.
If you become aware that "I am dreaming and this is false," the dream is broken, you are awake already.
The dream existed for a few hours; it had one quality of truth, that it existed. But it is not true because in the
morning you find it was not. It was just a thought, a wave in the air, a flower in the sky -- appeared to be
true but was untrue.
Truth is being, untruth is non-being, and between the two there is a world of dreaming -- it carries the
qualities of both. And mind is the source of dreaming, so mind IS illusory. Mind is the source of all MAYA.
You may be thinking that if you leave the world and go to the Himalayas you will attain to truth. You
are wrong, because your house is not MAYA, your wife is not MAYA, your children -- no. Your mind is
MAYA. And how can you leave the mind here and go to the Himalayas? The mind is within you. If you
CAN drop it, you can drop it anywhere. If you cannot drop it, you CANNOT drop it whether you go to the
Himalayas or not.
The wife, the children, the house, the world, is called MAYA, illusion, in a secondary sense -- because
the wife exists, she has a being. She is a BRAHMA in her own right, she is truth -- not as a wife, but as a
soul.
Your mind interprets her as wife: "She is my wife." Then a dream is created. She is there, absolutely
true! You are here, absolutely true! And between the two a dream happens. You call her your wife, she calls
you her husband. Now a dream exists between the two, and dreams always become nightmares. So all
relationships ultimately become nightmares, because you cannot tolerate an illusion very long. An illusion is
temporary; sooner or later it has to disappear. It cannot be eternal, it cannot be permanent.
You love a woman, a dream is created. But how long can you dream? By the time the honeymoon is
finished the dream is gone -- even before. Then what will you do? Then you will pretend, because now you
are a slave of your own promises.
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