Life and Death What is
Life and Death
What is regarded as the real objective world experienced in the waking state is no more real than that experienced during sleep (dream). During sleep, the world does not exist; and during the waking state, the dream does not exist! Even so, death contradicts life: while living, death is non-existent, and in death, life is non-existent. Because, that which holds together either experience is absent in the other.
Swami Venkatesananda: Vasishta's Yoga, State University of New York Press, 1993
And we lend such credence to all experiences and emotions!
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