DOES THE WORLD EXIST BY ITSELF?
"On waking up you say you had a sound sleep, and so that extent you are aware of yourself in the deepest sleep, whereas you have not the slightest notion of the world's existence then. Even now, while you are awake, is it the world that says, "I am real", or is it you?"
D: Of course I say it, but I say it of the world.
M: "well then, that world, which you say is real, is really mocking at you for seeking to prove its reality while of your own reality you are ignorant.
You want somehow or other to maintain that the world is real. What is the standard of reality? That alone is real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
Does the world exist by itself? Was it ever seen without the aid of the mind? In deep sleep there is neither mind nor world. When awake, there is the mind and there is the world. What does invariable concomitance mean?
You are familiar with the principles of inductive logic which are considered the very basis of scientific investigation. Why do you not decide this question of the reality of the world in the light of those accepted principles of logic?"
- The Power of the Presence
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