Once,Raja Janak, a mythological celebrity, was taken captive in an invasion of his kingdom.

 This,  he saw in a dream.

In a state of exasperation, the dream woke him up. 

So vivid and real was his dream that he gawked in wakeful state, mired in the misery that his wild dream had steeped him into. So much so that he stared around , gaping in utter disbelief .

 He was in a state of disbelief , not about his experience in the dream but about that which was there, intact, in his wakeful state. 

Such was the reality-content of the dream that , he continued in his utter disbelief about the apparent and about the real , about that reality, that he was still a king , whose kingdom had neither been invaded nor was he ever taken  captive in any invasion. 

Thoroughly confused, unable to come to terms with his wakeful state, the king rushed out to see that his darn at hall too was safe, sound and intact and so was every thing else in the kingdom. Belatedly though, it turned out to be 'seeing is believing', but the king was not an ordinary mortal as are we, who would give up, assured or reassured.

He wondered whether even his existing wakeful state could be a pleasant dream, as real or unreal as was his just experienced wild dream. 

Why can't the two states be both real in as much as reality content of one another abates, once the state itself abates and shifts to the other.

Doesn't the reality of the wakeful state abate in dreaming state and ,likewise, doesn't the content of the dream turns unreal after termination of the dream, he asked himself, pondering and introspecting.

Introspection is a mode of meditation which paved way for the discovery of a third state. That third state takes the subject beyond what is a so called wakeful or a dreaming state. The said dimension revealed to the king  all the realities about the fictitious aspects of both states, wakeful and dreaming. 

The king attained an elevated spiritual state, known as Jeevan Mukta, analogous of which are salvation, freedom, nirvana , etc.

The king then took to sanyas, bearing an adjective 'karma', that is Karma-Sanyas. These terms had vanished from reckoning but it's revival appears to have already set in. It may interest you to know, how?

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