Avastratraya...

The student must pass first through the stage of scientific proof from waking world facts for idealism: he must know that things are ideas.

Then only is he ready to pass to the higher stage of studying Avastatraya. Here dreams show what powers the mind possesses to manufacture whole worlds, to create externality and internality, i.e. space.

Sleep shows what power the mind possesses to reabsorb, store and later reproduce all the ideas of the world, space etc.

Finally having shown all this, Avastatraya clinches and carries to final culmination the idealistic theory learnt from waking state facts and shows what nature of mind is, what ego is, and that everything is not only ultimately one or non-dual but also not apart from yourself.


V.S.Iyer from Lights on Advaita