How Wakefulness and Dream are Similar in Nature and How Objects Are Only Mental Images
Sage Dattatreya said,
The sage's son made the king sleep, united his subtle body with the gross one left in the hole, and then woke him up. On regaining his senses, Mahasena found the whole world changed. The people, the river course, the trees, the tanks etc. were all different.
He was bewildered and asked the saint (sage's son): 'O great one! How long have we spent seeing your world? This world looks different from the one I was accustomed to!'
Thus asked, the sage's son said to Mahasena: 'Listen king, this is the world which we were in and left to see that within the hill. The same has undergone enormous changes owing to the long interval of time. We spent only one day looking the hill region; The same interval counts for twelve thousand years in this land; and it has accordingly changed enormously. Look at the difference in the manners of the people and their languages. Such changes are natural, I have often noticed similar changes before. Look here! This is the Lord, my father in samadhi. Here you stood before, praising my father and praying to him. There you see the hill in front of you.
By this time, your brother's progeny has increased by thousands. What was Vanga, your country, with Sundara, your capital, is now a jungle infested with jackals and wild animals. There is now one Virabahu in your brother's line who has his capital, Visala, on the banks of the Kshipra in the country of Malwa; in your life, there is Susarma whose capital is Vardhana in the country of the Dravidas, on the banks of Tambrabharani. Such is the course of the world which cannot remain the same even for a short period.'
(To be continued..)
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