One day I felt puzzled by the teaching that everything in the world is Maya or Illusion. I asked Bhagavan how with the physical existence before our eyes we can all be unreal and non-existent? Bhagavan laughed and asked me whether I had any dream the previous night. I replied that I saw several people lying asleep. He said, "Suppose now I ask you to go and wake up all those people in the dream and tell them they are not real, how absurd would it be! There is nothing but the dreamer, so were does the question of dream people, real or unreal, arise; Still more of waking them up and telling them that they are not real. We are all unreal, why do you doubt it? THAT alone is real.

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