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May 04, 2008 | 08:45 AM

Is this a dream I live in ?

" Is this a dream I live in ?" you asked me as we travelled in the car back from your tennis lesson. "But how would I know, for the word 'dream' does not come when I am really dreaming. What happens when I wake up ?" I was completely taken aback by your question, for you are still just 7 years old. Taken aback because for centuries the mystics and the wise ones have been grappling with this question. Except they may not call it a dream. They call it Maya, the illusion. Life is an illusion. It means the same thing.

Problem today is that many philosophers and mystics look down upon the 'dream life'. Like 'because it is an illusion, therefore it is something silly'. Not to be taken seriously. No my love, life is to be taken very seriously, for every thought, every action, every moment, every passion dissolves into a great churning that is your life. What is called your karma. And your karma is the connection between your universal self, your atman or soul, your god self, or anything you would like to call it, and your 'maya self', or your 'dream self'. It is what you experience when you wake up !....

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December 07, 2005 | 05:41 AM

My Immense wealth I give to ..

my daughter on my Birthday,

My wealth lies more in the faliures of my life than my succeses. My wealth lies in people I have known and lost. My wealth lies in the pain and the heartache of living.

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