Dream experiences are refuted by waking once. A man after waking can judge the merits of the dream, but waking experiences are not found to be unreal in dream. One knows a state to be a waking state only when there is the feeling that the objects seen are real and as such remain the same in all waking states. Why is the waking more real? It is said what gives the indisputable stamp of reality to the waking state is that we return to the same objects. But in the dream, it's different. Not only every night from every dream to dream, it’s different. And he goes on and there's basically the sum and substance of the answer. There is no
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches one of the shortest and most profound upanishads accompanied by Gaudapada's Karika. This lecture covers Mantra 5-6.