Yoga Vasistha.
When your mind and heart are truly open abundance will flow to you effortlessly and easily.
Question:
I have read many spiritual books (some of yours), and I am currently reading the Concise Yoga Vasistha. I feel as though the more I meditate and study, the more I am growing spiritually, but this book has me confused. This book is saying that the “outer world” is like a dream and is not real. I must be misinterpreting something because it is hard for me to grasp the idea that my surroundings and the three children I love very much are not “real”. Can you help me make sense of this concept?
Response:
The Yoga Vasistha is aimed at the reader for whom consciousness is becoming the dominant reality in their life. In this context, the outer material world is losing its preeminence as the stable, reliable reference for what is real. The outer world is still real to the enlightened in that it is an experience of immaterial consciousness, but it is no longer real the way it was when awareness was object-referral. The dream analogy is the closest experience we have of how our consciousness appears as a world that feels real when we experience it on its own terms, but then is seen as ephemeral once you step into the context of unity consciousness. For the enlightened soul, the non-local awareness within is now the most concrete, real, and permanent reality, and sensory waking experience is derivative of that.
Love,
Deepak
