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The Dream of Life

Translation/ by Charles Johnston, Oriental Department Papers, December, 1895

Dream, wherein the Self is mirrored, has two, powers,—to extend and to envelope; enveloping the habitual self and its world, it extends a new self and life instead.

They remain only so long as the dream lasts, and are the mirror-self and the mirror-world; nor, when one has awakened from one dream, are they ever the same in another dream.

The mirror-self believes its mirror-world to be real; but the habitual-self knows them both to be unreal.

The habitual-self believes its habitual-world to be real; but the supreme Self knows them both to be unreal.

The supreme Self knows its oneness with the supreme Eternal; and sees nothing apart from the Eternal except the unreality of all else.