From Dreams Awake
Dreaming is selfish.  Wake up and then help others wake up.  Do not just dream your life away in selfish pursuits that are ultimately empty and meaningless.  Wake up from this hazy dream of desire and begin to seek and search inside.  This search is going to bring you into an encounter with the tendency towards taking form that hides in your own mind.  Find it and get over it.  If you are unsure of how to do that, then ask your teacher who will give you an austerity, a practice to do around that particular problem.  Austerity, tapas, was among the first of the yogic principles you should have learned.

We have to be a willing participant in our own spiritual awakening   Anything you created in maya, in consciousness, in samsara, you will have to undo yourself; the teacher will tell you how to remove them, but you must do the work yourself.  That is the best way, most of the time.  Otherwise, your attainments will not mean anything.  Even when asking help of a savior, this rule applies.  A savior is not a doormat; he is a doorway.

The expression, "Born free," is a contradiction.  If you are born, you are not free, obviously.  Try to attain to birthlessness.  Then death will never be a concern.

People ask: Does God have a meaning for my life?  No, of course not.  There is no meaning to life.  There is no aim in maya.  God is not a dreamer, a competitor, or a moralist, what to speak of a judge.  The seeking, the attaining, and even the utilizing are all a part of the dream.  Waking up from all dreams, then, is the only real "meaning."  As the Upanisads state, "From dreams awake, from bonds be free....."

Mother has two Hands: Projection and Withdrawal.  In Her Hands is a little tempest in a teapot called creation, preservation, and destruction.  People who like tea and tempests rotate continually around this mental "Bermuda triangle," but those who find out that the entire manifestation is a projection can learn to withdraw it at will.

If you take your dream to a guru, the guru will tell you to meditate on it.  You must render it in terms of Reality.  That is, see it from the standpoint of Consciousness and make the appropriate connections.

I was never a paramecium, then a lizard, or a monkey – what nonsense.  I have always been the nondual Brahman, only witnessing such processes and occasionally participating in them due to lack of control over my own mind, i.e., letting the fourfold mind go wherever it will, projecting indiscriminately.  Thus, thousands of dream monkeys pass, as do dream bodies of all sorts.  The Atman remains the same.