Tripura Rahasya

Sage Dattatreya

Dream is said to be real as well as unreal (in experience and in substance, respectively). Really speaking, dream too is not unreal. For, what is unreality? Impermanency. This again is recognized by the thought of the non-continuity of the dream which implies the thought content to be dream. Is it truly non-continuous then? The intellect being always continuous, there cannot be a moment of thinking the absence of a thing, that thing really exists in the mind and so it is real and not unreal. All objects are, however, nonexistent when not contemplated by the mind. But reality is determined by the being or non-being which cannot be ascertained by the mind, because its denial implies the formation of the mental image of the denied thing and it is absurd to deny its existence. In the absence of denial, the thing must be and so everything is. Thus the existence of pure intelligence is proved by its manifestation, as all else, and thus moksha cannot be exterior to the Self, anything to be gathered, acquired or assimilated.

Moksha is defined as the steady glow of the Self in perfection. The non-modification of Abstract Intelligence into the objective phenomena is said to be the state of perfection.