How can you be content, living in this illusory world, gathering and relying on illusory knowledge? Realise the person beyond all illusion, who is the Creator of this illusion, who is revealed in and through this illusion. Worldly knowledge is of the temporary, the particular, the finite, the individual; how can it reveal the Eternal, the Universal, the Infinite, the Absolute? The Veda has the answer. It asks us to analyse our dream-experience. Dreams are unreal, they are illusory. But yet, for as long as we are dreaming, the experience is real and valid. Often in the dreams, as a result of the illusory experience itself, awareness is created through fear or horror or pain or excitement, such that the person dreaming wakes up and the dream is destroyed. What has caused the awakening? The dream itself helped in the destruction of the dream. So too in this ‘wakeful dream’ – in the illusory world where every wakeful experience is deemed true and valid – some experience or the roar of the Vedas in the Mahavakyas (Divine axioms, which ring through the sacred texts) wakes man into the higher awareness. – Divine Discourse, Nov 22, 1970