105Awareness: My Inner Guru

Would you like to take pilgrimage to Self ?

If yes

Then just walk with me as ‘I ‘

holding the hands of my guru — the Awareness

as we journey through the three worlds

waking world, dream world and sleep world

I go to sleep each night and dream

The process of dream reveals my waking reality

In dream I am aware

\* Things just happen

\* I do nothing consciously

\* I do experience enjoyment and suffering

through my acts, emotions, and feelings

On awakening I am aware

I experience freedom from all my acts,

emotions and feelings in dream

I see the ‘aimlessness’ of everything

that happens in my dream

All my dream experiences

ceases to have any value to me

In dream, I may be a millionaire or a pauper

and experience accidents, or may even die at times

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Awareness: My Inner Guru

But on awakening I Realize

I am unharmed, and find myself the same

‘That’ which is aware in dream

is also the same ‘that’ is aware in waking

I am ‘that’ which is ‘Witnessing’

all that happens in waking or dream

As we journey further

Let’s see why the ‘Witnesser’ in sleep

has no significance for ‘everything in waking life’?

I observe that the ‘person’ or the ‘ego’

cease to exist (not present) in sleep

Is it not the silence of the ‘ego’

that lets the ‘Witnesser’ take charge once more -?

May be that’s why sleep is so blissful

that I don’t mind loosing my Identity of ‘person’

Let’s journey further

As I awake

The ‘ego’ once again takes charge

The ‘person’ with name, form, and its memory of joys

and sorrows makes me play silly games of life

But at night , merely by closing my eyes

I bring an end to this temporary ‘person’

Would you like to take pilgrimage to Self ?

If yes

Then just walk with me as ‘I ‘

holding the hands of my guru — the Awareness

as we journey through the three worlds

waking world, dream world and sleep world

I go to sleep each night and dream

The process of dream reveals my waking reality

In dream I am aware

\* Things just happen

\* I do nothing consciously

\* I do experience enjoyment and suffering

through my acts, emotions, and feelings

On awakening I am aware

I experience freedom from all my acts,

emotions and feelings in dream

I see the ‘aimlessness’ of everything

that happens in my dream

All my dream experiences

ceases to have any value to me

In dream, I may be a millionaire or a pauper

and experience accidents, or may even die at times

105 / 169