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A man walking along the sidewalk suddenly slips and mourns over his own death since he sees his shadow being run over by a truck. This is surely a case of mistaken identity. In our case too, the Seer(Self) and the seen(body) seem to have become one. We think ‘I am the body’ and consequently we suffer.
The dream is the projection of the mind. Everything of the dream enjoys the same degree of reality. Yet some person, thing or transaction of the dream has the special power to wake us up. The seventh chapter of the Chandagya Upanishad, which is a dialogue between the great Sage Sanathumara and his younger brother, turned disciple, the famous Narada, makes us realize that all knowledge is the play of words alone – name eva etat. Yet the words of the text have ...