In a dream everything that we experience is an appearance in consciousness. In the movie ther there are no people, there are no no cars andhe cities and buildings. But they are all appearances. How do you apply to the waking state? Notice, what is the difference here? What was a screen and movie arent easy to understand, dreamer. And the contents of the dream alsoeasy to understand. You understand that whatever is in the screen is an appearance. Its not really that there are people there, cars, anda, cities, there. No whatever is there in the in the dream is also an appearance, though it seems very real. When i come out of it,
Inspired by the 15th chapter of the Ashtavakra Gita, Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a discourse on the nature of the Self.