But first you have to introspect. In mediation. Silently observe where thoughts come from. Where the feeling of happiness arises from.
And then pass through layers after layers of happiness
Then suddenly you realize it is from the real you
Right now if you eat something you like. You constantly think you and pizza are different. And the great taste of pizza came from pizza.
Here Ramana maharshi is talking about a do state of mediation where you experience pizza is an external object that case from your own consciences.
Such yogi are rare.
To those who have not gone deep in mediation this should sound absurd. It is absurd. Until you reach a certain state of mastery
Please forgive me for this crude analogy. Let’s say you imagine a man or woman. The man or woman is not there. But yet there is pleasure. Where did that pleasure come from? Yourself.
So this would be an example. There are much deeper layers where yogi can materialize things completely. Like a Babaji created a palace for Lahiri Mahasaya.
Again the palace came from the inner desires in the mind of Lahiri Mahasaya.
Thus all pleasure both in dreams, imagination and material world come from self.
To the uninitiated, they can understand pleasure in imagination as coming from self – like the pleasure in thinking of a man or woman
To the intellectual, he or she can understand Dream was nothing more than his or her own mind. But there is no control over it. Slowly one should get control over the mind and dream
Lastly , the advanced yogi realizes that this material world is also an imagination of the deepest layers of the mind. And they give up that pleasure since it was Nothing more than a dream. This mind I refer to is not the same mind you used to imagine the male or female. It is not the mind you had in the dream.
Are you getting the picture?
Bhavin