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But the dream protects, the dream says, "Yes, this is the toilet, you have unloaded yourself. Now go to
sleep." The bladder remains full, the discomfort remains full, but the dream gives a comfortable coating, it
makes it easier to tolerate. In reality the situation remains the same, but the dream gives you a false illusion
that the reality has changed.
So what is the deep meaning of dreaming? The deep meaning is that reality as such is so harsh you
cannot I tolerate it. Reality as such, naked, is too much, you are not ready to bear it. The dream fills the gap;
it gives you a reality you can tolerate. Reality is given to you by the mind in such a way that you can adjust
to it.
The more you grow, the less dreaming will be there because there will be no problem of being adjusted.
The more you grow, the less dreams. If you grow perfectly in awareness, dreaming stops because, perfectly
aware, you don't want to change reality. You simply become one with it. You don't fight with it because,
perfectly aware, you come to realize that the real cannot be changed. All that can be changed is your
attitude, your mind -- the real will remain the same.
You cannot change reality, you can change only this false process of mind. Ordinarily we are trying to
change reality so that reality adjusts to us. A religious person is one who has dropped out of that foolish
effort. Now he is not trying to change reality to fit him because that is nonsense. The whole cannot fit to the
part, and the whole cannot in any way follow the part; the part has to follow the whole.
My hand has to follow my organic body, my whole body; my body cannot follow the hand, it is
impossible. The part is minute, atomic. Who are you before this vast reality? How are you going to adjust
this reality to you?
This is the ego which says, "Go on making effort -- some day or other the reality will have to adjust to
you." Then you become burdened with anxiety, because this is not going to happen. This cannot happen in
the very nature of things: a drop trying to change the ocean, a drop trying to influence the ocean according
to his ideas!
What is your mind? Not even a drop in this vast ocean! And what are you trying? You are trying to
make the reality follow you, truth should become a shadow to you. This is the foolishness of all worldly
men, all those who think they are materialists.
Then what is a religious man, what is a religious mind? A religious man is one who comes to understand
that this is absolutely impossible, you are knocking against an impossible wall. The door is not possible
there -- only you will be hurt, only you will be in anguish, only you will feel frustrated, only you will
become a failure. Nothing else is possible. That happens to every ego in the end; wounded, hurt, frustrated,
worried -- this happens to every ego in the end. Ego suffers, ego is always crucified -- crucified because of
its own foolishness.
When understanding dawns, when you can look and see the fact that you are just a part, an infinitely
small part of an infinitely vast universe, you simply don't try to be foolish. You stop fooling around. Rather,
on the contrary, you start a new journey: you try to adjust yourself to reality. When you start trying to adjust
yourself to reality, dreaming stops by and by -- because this is possible, this is the only possibility that can
happen, and it happens. When it happens, dreaming stops.
When you are trying to change reality according to you, you will become a thinker, because you will
have to devise means and ways, artifices, to force reality to adjust to you. You may become a great scientist,
you may become a great mathematician, a great philosopher, but you will be in anxiety and anguish.
You will not become a dancing Meera or a silent Buddha or an ecstatic Sosan, no, because their whole
approach is diametrically opposite. They adjust to the universe, they become one with it, they flow with it,
they become just shadows in it. They don't fight, they don't have any conflict or argument with existence.
They simply say yes to all that is. They are not no-sayers, they are yea-sayers.
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