Much importance
has been given by New Age spirituality to dream and dream states.
Unfortunately, dreams are often interpreted today in ways that are deeply
life-restricting and life-damaging. Modern psychologists seem almost to suggest
that man can live without sleep, but not without dream! And yet, the word ‘dream’ means that
which is not true. The whole purpose of yoga is to work towards a state of
dreamlessness or sushupti-a state where you are so aware that you are
incapable of dreaming.Dream in the yogic view does not merely refer to dreaming
when asleep, or awake. Instead, one’s very psychological framework is regarded
as a dream. Your thought process may feel intensely real and seductively lifelike-even
more than reality-but it has no existential basis. So your whole experience of
life is, in a sense, a dream. The word ‘maya’ means that you are not
seeing life as it is.
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