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" " King Janaka used to gather many rishis in his palace and take delight

> in discussing with them about spiritual problems; he was a great adept at

> sadhana and he attained the highest stage of samadhi through Raja yoga.

One

> day, while in the midst of the court, with the Queen and the maids, even

> while he was conversing with them, he fell asleep. He had a dream. He

dreamt

> that he was deprived of his kingdom, that he was roaming half-mad, hungry

> and deserted in the jungle, begging for food from whoever he met, that he

> came upon some men washing dishes and vessels after a feast which they had

> shared, that he ran towards them seeking some crumbs, that they gave him

> some little quantity of rice scraped from the vessels, that he was about

to

> put it into his mouth when a big bird flew in and swooped it out of his

> grasp; so, he yelled in pain and grief, and the Queen heard it and she

woke

> him up.

> Of course, when he woke, he knew he was the King. He remembered that a

> second previously, he was a beggar. He questioned within himself, which is

> real, this or that? To every one who inquired what the matter was, he put

> the same question. " Am I a king or a beggar? " The queen and others were

> frightened at this behaviour; they sent for the ministers and with them

> came, Ashtavakra, the preceptor. He discovered the situation as soon as he

> saw the King; so, to the question that the King put him, he answered,

" Raja!

> This is unreal; that is unreal; you, who experienced this as well as that,

> you alone are real. "

> The waking stage is real until the sleeping stage; the sleeping stage is

> real, until the waking stage. But, both are unreal, because one cancels

the

> other. " "

>

> I just read this story and could understand everything except that one

> question keeps bothering me....

> How can we explain the continuity of the waking state and the

> discontinuity of the dream state... if both are as unreal as the other,

then

> how is it that life is continuous when we wake up every morning... also in

> the dream state we do not continue our dream we had the previous night....

> please help me understand this..

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> *LOVE,*

> *KARTIK IYER*