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When we're dreaming, when we're asleep, are we in maya? Even when we dream about Godbrothers and Godsisters?

Expressions researched:
"Even when we dream about Godbrothers and Godsisters" |"When we're dreaming, when we're asleep, are we in maya"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1968 Conversations and Morning Walks

The mind is always active, and dreaming means the mind is acting. So dreaming is not always bad. Dreaming sometimes very good.
Questions and Answers -- Montreal, August 26, 1968:

Devotee (girl): When we're dreaming, when we're asleep, are we in māyā?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Devotee (girl): Even when we dream about...

Prabhupāda: So long you sleep, you waste your time.

Devotee (girl): Swami, even when we dream about Godbrothers and Godsisters?

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Devotee (girl): Even when we dream about Godbrothers and Godsisters?

Prabhupāda: No. That is not māyā. I mean to say, dreaming... Yes. Sleeping means stopping your active life. So that is a waste of time. We should rather... The mind is always active, and dreaming means the mind is acting. So dreaming is not always bad. Dreaming sometimes very good. What I mean, sleeping is not very good.

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Page Title:When we're dreaming, when we're asleep, are we in maya? Even when we dream about Godbrothers and Godsisters?
Compiler:Rishab
Created:01 of May, 2011
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