/lit/ - Literature

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the only way to resolve such matters is through an examination of the three states (waking,dream,sleep), that is, through an examination of our total experience; that was the secret of the rishis, compared to this, other methods are no more than mere speculation.
the mind can work only in a 'horizontal' or analytical way, you can't expect much from her, you can't 'escape' from samsara 'through' samsara, as Guénon put it: 'The Indefinite is Analytically Inexhaustible'

the only way out is through a 'vertical' or synthetic operation that has its source 'outside/beyond' samsara; this has nothing to do with 'mysticism' or any 'superior state', but its just to look at things from the metaphysical standpoint, what advaitins call the standpoint of the Witness/Sakshin and that is the goal of the avasthatraya

From this 'standpoint' you'll see that this whole samsara (as Sureshvara put it: 'from the Creator (BrahmA) to a clump of grass') is nothing but a dream, an illusion.