"When the light is there, darkness simply cannot exist.

"Dreaming exists because life is dark, dim, dismal. Dreaming exists as a substitute: because we don't have real joy, hence we dream. Because we don't really have anything in life, hence we dream. Otherwise how will we be able to tolerate the emptiness that we are, how will we be able to tolerate our existence? It will be absolutely unbearable. Dreams make it bearable, dreams help us. They say to us, 'Wait! Today things are not going right? Don't be worried, tomorrow everything will be put right. Everything has to be right. We will try – maybe we have not tried enough yet. Maybe we have not worked in the right direction. Maybe fate was not with us, God was against us, but it cannot be forever….' And God is compassionate, kind; all the religions of the world say God is very kind, very compassionate. It is a hope.

"Mohammedans continuously repeat: God is rahim, rahman – compassionate, kind. Why? For what do they repeat this again and again? Each time they utter the word God they will repeat 'the compassionate, the kind.' Why? If he is not kind, then where will our hope and dreaming exist? He has to be kind for our dreams to exist, because there exists our hope – in his kindness, in his compassion. Tomorrow things will be okay, tomorrow they are going to be okay.

"Daydreaming is good as far as love and fame are concerned, as far as outgoing energies are concerned, because outgoing, we are going in a dream. The world is a dream phenomenon; that is what Hindus mean when they call it maya, illusion. It is made of the same stuff dreams are made of. It is a daydream seen with open eyes.

"But enlightenment is a totally different plane of being. Dreams don't exist there. And if you continue to dream, enlightenment will not be possible."