SB 5.11.3 Focus on the sound that awakens us from the dream of material existence

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… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … It seems to be excellent, this is referring to the Vedic song, but just as one understands that the happiness of a dream is an illusion, as soon as one by the natural procreation of time wakes up, similarly by the natural procreation of spiritual life, one starts to understand that what will happen is, in general, that naturally there is nothing to be excited about, it will come and it will go, and it is peripheral to my essential identity, therefore I don’t need to get worked up about it, I don’t need to get unusually excited about it, so this metaphor of the world as a dream can be bewildering at times, it comes repeatedly in the scriptures and what it essentially means is that the world is an illusion, whatever experiences we have in the world are temporary, just as are the experiences in a dream, but the difference, however, is that in a dream, our actions, we are largely observers, even if we are participants, we are simply observing our actions most of the time, nowadays, sorry, in our awakened stage, we can choose our actions, and we can choose those actions which will help us to awaken from the dream, and best among those activities is the chanting of the holy names, when we chant Hare Krishna, we actually give ourselves a chance to wake up from the illusory preoccupation with the world, now, certainly we have responsibilities which we cannot neglect or reject as dreams, but the point is, the scriptures offer us a process by which we can wake up from the dream, so aparadharma, which are family responsibilities and other responsibilities are actually a part of the dream, whereas only aparadharma is the way out of the dream, by doing our worldly responsibilities, we will be able to stay well situated, but still remain inside the dream, only by doing devotional activities, by activities that strive for liberation will we come out of the dream, so this dream perspective doesn’t recommend or condone irresponsibly towards one’s worldly duties, but also helps to understand that neglecting our spiritual advancement is the ultimate irresponsibility, because it sentences us to perpetual existence within the dream of our existence, and although this world, life in this world is called as a dream, actually most of the times it is a nightmare, because it involves so much suffering, loss of our loved ones, the decline of our own body, the decline and demise of our various faculties, all these cause so much misery, and therefore it is best to recognize that before this dream turns into a nightmare, we strive and pray to wake up from it, and just as a dreaming person is awakened by sound vibration, similarly the sound of the holy name can help us to awaken from the dream of material existence, and we should focus on those sound vibrations, even within the Vedic canon, that help us to awaken from the dream, so Bhagawad gives us this transcendental process of Krishna Consciousness centred on chanting, which is the essence of the Vedic wisdom, which enables us to wake up from this dream which will turn into a nightmare soon. Thank you.