One night, a King had a dream in which he dreamt that he had lost his kingdom and became a beggar.
He was going round the streets of the city begging for alms. The pangs of hunger made him cry. A kind hearted person gave him some food, but to his great misfortune, even that morsel slipped down from his hand.
Just then the horror stricken king woke up from his dream. He found himself in his royal palace.
The king asked himself, "Which is real - the dream world or the conscious world? "
The Queen who was observing him was also perplexed. They decided to consult their spiritual master.
When the King had finished describing his dream, the spiritual master thus explained:
"O King, both are real in one sense but there is also another point of view. You became a beggar in the dream world and you are the King in the conscious world. ‘You’ exist in both the worlds. While these two worlds are unreal,
‘You’ alone are real. You are the absolute reality of the dreaming state as well as the conscious state".
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