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But all tli!s is wrong, as both waking and dream are imagined. Sri Gau~apadahas said, 'Experiences co;iditioned by the time':scale of one's 0'Yll mind alone (dreams and day-dreams, etc.) are (called) "internal"; experiences conditioned by a two-fold time-scale (i.e. experiences lasting "as long as" something that appears to be external to the mind) are (called) "external". B u t b o t h a l i k e a r e - i m a g i n e d . T h e ( s u p p o s e d ) d i s t i n c t i o n b~tween t h e t w o k i n d s o f e x p e r i e n c e is itself imagined' (G.K. 2."14). Both the external and the mental are imagin~ as the same distinction (between apparent 'external' and apparent 'mental~) is found in dream. The same reasoning that leads us to conclude that the dream-experiences are mental leads us to conclude that the objects of the waking world are mental too. Thus we find in Sri Scupkara's writings the phrase ~Mental objects are verily extern~ and external objects are verily mental' (Chand. Sh. 8.5.4). Just as the objects seen in dream are not seen in waking, so the objects o f the waking world are not seen in dream. On that score there is no difference between them. So it was the remark of a simpleton to say that because dream waS mental it owed its origin to \vaking. All

·experience c~mes as present experience and orders past and future succession in relation to that, the same whether in dream or in waking. In both states all things are associated \vith the ideas of past, present and future~ which suggests that they are mental ~ character, in the manner already indicated. There is·no difference between the two states on that score.