A dreamer dreams a dream.

He sees the dream world with pleasures, pains. etc. But he wakes

up and then loses all interest in the dream world. So it is with the waking world also. Just as the dream-world, being only a part

of yourself and not different from you, ceases to interest you, so

also the present world would cease to interest you if you awake from this waking dream (samsara) and realize that it is a part of your Self, and not an objective reality.

Because you think that you are apart from the objects around you,

you desire a thing. But if you understand that the thing was only

a thought-form you would no longer desire it. #SriRamanaMaharshi