Thought for the Day

The feelings we experience in dreams disappear when we wake up. The things we see when awake are also short lived. During sleep, we are not aware of the world at all. Though the body is in the bedroom, when we dream, it is direct and dramatic, like for example we may see ourselves shopping on the Mount Road in Chennai! So, the waking, dreaming and sleeping stages are all only relatively and deceivingly real. Let us say, you are coming towards the hostel at dusk singing bhajans. A boy in the front row suddenly shouts in fear, "Snake Snake", that fear will overtake you all. It will make all of you step back. But, was it really a snake? Say a boy then looks at it with a lit torch and finds out that it was only a rope! Ignorance (the thought it was a snake and the fear) caused it, knowledge removed it. Similarly when the ‘torch’ lights up the world, it will be revealed to be God. 

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba