Degrees Of Reality

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Q. They say that the astral body lives for forty years after death.

In the present body you say the dream body is astral. Did you say so in the dream body? What is astral now would appear real then, the present body itself is astral according to that viewpoint. What is the difference between one astral body and another? There is no difference between the two.

Q. There are degrees of reality.

To say the dream body is unreal now, and to say that this body was unreal in the dream, does not denote degrees of reality. In deep sleep there is no experience of the body at all. There is always only one and that is the Self.