Funny Dream (N+1)

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Was in class. Second / third row, left side, door to the left, close to the grill window, that is, facing the central garden side.

There was a snail, and I was describing about the snail to the person near me, I forgot who it was, probably Akshay BR, but may not be.. I'm not sure. But if it was him, I surely did annoy him too, despite him being interested in this stuff. Basically I decided to randomly analyze a snail, simply because I decided that I could find knowledge anywhere.

(So basically this dream is me in school, but if I had a more developed prefrontal cortex!)

So anyways when he got annoyed, miss made him stand up lol. So anyways, the break came. It was like, it was an evening studies class, because this was at about sunset, and the weather was kind of gloomy.

So Dhanvin came to me, but in the dream, it was more like my dad if he was younger - and that would be because he was being playfully sarcastic, and in a long time, I'd only talked to my dad like that. So he came and started telling me hey Jyothish look at the grass (random analysis), and look at the clouds (random analysis), etc. etc. teasing me for my constant obsession with analyzing everything. And Akshay BR there was pretty pissed.

Then Chacko came in front of the class, (I'm not even sure if he was in my class - because he didn't notice there was a teacher inside) - and started yapping loudly about how 6th I was. And he started yapping at others. He started insulting someone and miss saw it, but he didn't see miss. The he went around and saw Arvind A Menon and addressed him by "Nayinte Mone" and slapped him playfully. But Deepa miss saw that, and formed a bad impression of Chacko.

So the purpose of the dream was to illustrate:

(1) How overanalyzing is stupid - and I had that become clear to me later, when I realizes that I do not have to spend time learning about things that I'm planning to discard. One would choose to study about some stuff simply because they think it may become useful, but then a lot of such studies become studies anticipating problems, and to protect oneself from them. But when one chooses the path of devotion, they need not burden themselves with those details, and in fact, it can hinder one's progress.

(2) How Chacko, despite being rowdy on the surface, is actually a pretty balanced guy. Me on the other hand, while I tried to always do the right thing, also had darkness within me just like everyone, and because I didn't always have a good outlet, when it would come out of me, it would be more severe. And the better I got at making myself perfect, the worse, when the dark side would come out, got. The example being that I'd be the nicest guy, but when I was forced to conclude that peace was not an option, I didn't feel like a heavy war was immoral in any sense - and I'd scare people because I meant my words. But now that I chose the path of deity worship, I'll let them fight the darkness, and I'll just relax and give it up to them and God's will.

(In Advaita Vedanta they're both the same, but slightly different. From a dualistic perspective, you could consider them equivalent to angels.

But from the Advaita Vedanta perspective, the world is Brahman appearing as beings within Maya, and he is the creator of Maya, and the real self of the apparent beings in Maya. As the creator of Maya, he would be the same as God or Eeshvara. Then deities would be the beings in Maya that know their true nature, or Brahman reflected on perfect knowledge, and normal beings would be beings who think they are the minds (or Brahman reflected on Antahkarana, which is made of Avidya, unless it is purified by Karma and sublated by Vidya). In this way, the true nature of all beings is the same as God, but when within Maya, only deities know that, until the beings are liberated. So the fate and unravelling of everything is set by God, but the instrumental causes of peace are the deities. That's why I said them and God's will. Or in other words, their aiding me happens according to God's will - to liberate me from Avidya, and realize that Brahman alone exists. And the difference between God and Brahman is that Brahman is the reality, and God is Brahman when viewed from within Maya by the limited beings as its cause.

So there is a God and many deities. But it's not like a God commanding deities, but that all beings are really God, but the deities are the ones that know that at all times, while other beings need to realize that by dispelling the darkness of Avidya Maya.)

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