Of dreams

"The manifestation of the entire universe is like a dream, the cosmic dream, exactly like the micro-cosmic dream of an individual. All objects are dreamed objects; all are appearances in consciousness --whether it is the dream arising spontaneously as a personal, individual dream during sleep or as the living-dream of life in which we are all dreamed and lived. All objects, all appearences are dreamed by sentient being in consciousness."

Sentient beings are therefore both dreamed figures as well as dreamers; there is no single dreamer as such. Each current dreaming of the universe is in the consciousness within a particular psychosomatic apparatus, the medium through which the perceiving and the interpreting occurs, and this apparatus is MISTAKEN as an individual entity. In deep sleep there is no dream and therefore no universe. Only when you use the divided mind do you exist apart from the 'others' and the world.

You have no control over the objects in your personal dream, including the object that 'you' are in your dream. Everything is spontaneous, and yet every object in your personal dream is nothing other than you. In the life-dream, too, all objects (all 'individuals'), even if they are opposed to one another in the dream, can only be what-you-are. All functioning, all action in life, can only be spontaneous action, because there is no entity to perform any action. You are (I Am) the functioning, the dream, the cosmic dance of Shiva!

Del Libro Pointers from Nisargadatta Maharaj by Ramesh S. Balsekar