Posted on: 15 Dec 2022
1. What is a dream state made up of?
[Shri Anil asked: Padanamaskaram Swami. Kindly please grace Your answers to the following questions-at Your Lotus Feet-anil. Why is the dream state only made up of inert energy and matter? Even in the dream state, during the dream, we are seeing items which are made of matter like tiger, hill etc. Kindly clarify this.]
Swami replied: The dream state is made of energy and awareness. The hill in the dream is also made of inert energy and not of matter. If the hill in the dream is really made of matter, the dreamer will die! The dream tiger is an item of inert energy and awareness. The dream hill is only an item of inert energy.
2. Does God also experience deep sleep?
[Souls do not exist in deep sleep state. How is it for God, that, even the deep sleep state is real, even though God never goes into deep sleep state? Does God also experience deep sleep?]
Swami replied: The items of the world have become absolutely real due to the God-gifted absolute reality. The horn of a rabbit is unreal and hence, the unreality of that item is absolutely real, which means the horn of the object does not exist really. In deep sleep, awareness is non-existent and hence the non-existence of awareness is absolutely real. God does not have even dream state, not to speak of deep sleep. He is always in awaken state and His awareness is unimaginable awareness due to the absence of inert energy and materialized nervous system in the background.
3. What is the opinion of an advaitin regarding dvaita?
[Padanamaskaram Swami: You have given an excellent clarification on the question by Shri Ajay on Dvaita and Advaita (Divine message date: 26/11/2022). I have a small doubt. I felt that the Advaita philosopher is referring Dvaita as a state in which soul believes God existing separately out side of him (which they treat as ignorance) and Advaita means soul itself is God. He is not referring the state of God before and after creation. My observations may fully wrong. Kindly correct me.]
Swami replied: When soul is God as per the advaita philosophy, the soul is expected to be eternal. Whatever is the state of God before and after creation, the same state exists for the soul as well because God is always the soul only. God or soul gifted His absolute reality to the creation to make it absolutely real as per advaita. Actually, this applies to God only and not to the soul because soul is a part of the creation only (Paraa Prakruti) as said in the Gita.