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Speaker A [00:00:00]:

This universe is simply a dream in consciousness. Everything

Speaker B [00:00:04]:

that we are

Speaker A [00:00:05]:

seeing around us is an illusion or it is not what it actually is. This is the greatest teaching given to us by the ancient Vedas and Upanishads. Now in this episode, let us understand how can this be possible. How can this universe that feels so real to us, and feels so self evident can be a dream or an illusion. First, let us understand our dream world. We all dream different dreams, and within our dreams, We experience a lot of things. We experience ourselves as the dream ego, and We interact with the dream world, we talk to different people, we interact with different objects in the dream, and we go through experiences like this every single day when we go to sleep and when we dream. And within our dream, we never realized that it is actually a projection in our Mind or it is an illusion or anything like that.

Speaker A [00:01:08]:

Whatever happens, we think that it is actually happening to us and it is actually real. Only once we wake up, we come to a realization that whatever we experienced in our dreams is just a mere illusion or a projection. Now with this perspective, let us look at our waking world. Once we wake up, we go through our day and we assume that the reality that we experience in the waking world is Actually real. It is actually happening. But what the teachings of the Upanishads tell us is that even this It's not true. You think that whatever you're experiencing is real because you have not woken up to Another reality, the ultimate reality, and this reality is called Brahman or pure consciousness. It is because you haven't waken up from this world in which you are living and which you think is real, You experience it as real just as you were experiencing your dream world as real when you were asleep.

Speaker A [00:02:22]:

The same thing is happening again. Of course, this world is much more real in terms of its sophistication, in terms of the various laws that govern this world and various other factors. But that does not mean this World itself is an absolute reality. We need to understand that there is another reality which is Pure consciousness or awareness and this dream and this world is just a dream in that consciousness. This is the understanding that we need to come to.

Speaker B [00:02:58]:

In order to understand this clearly, we need to understand the 3 levels of reality as explained by Vedanta. Vedanta talks about 3 levels of reality. The first level of reality is. This is pure consciousness or god or pure awareness. This is limitless. It is all pervading, and it is abundant. The 2nd level of reality is. This is the world that we live in.

Speaker B [00:03:29]:

Right now, you are in this level of reality. While you are experiencing this video, you are understanding different concepts. So our politics, Economy, religion, spirituality, everything happens at this level of reality. Then there is the 3rd level of reality, which is called as or illusionary reality. The dream experience that we looked at earlier comes under this level of reality. So the entire existence is segregated into these 3 levels of realities. But if we look closer, all these 3 levels of realities Have one thing in common, and that is awareness or consciousness. Whatever you experienced in the dream, You experienced it in your awareness itself.

Speaker B [00:04:15]:

Whatever you experience in the waking world as a man or a woman, You experience it or witness it in your awareness. And, hence, that awareness itself is that ultimate reality in which this universe is being experienced. I know for the people who are listening it to the 1st time, this kind of breaks their mind and This stretches the boundaries of our minds. This happens because our mind itself is limited. There are certain inher