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    Dreams, Illusions, and Other Realities by Wendy Doniger

    The Wilson Quarterly (1976-), Vol. 8, No. 5 (Winter, 1984), p. 135


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    Arts & Letters

    DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, To Westerners, few things are more confusing


    AND OTHER REALITIES than "the Indian view of reality." Really a
    by Wendy Doniger composite picture emerging from Hindu,
    O'Flaherty Buddhist, and other religious and philosoph-
    Univ. of Chicago, 1984 ical traditions, it is a collage of seemingly
    361 pp. $25
    contradictory propositions about the world
    and man's place in it. O'Flaherty, a professor
    of religion at the University of Chicago, is fa-
    miliar with Western bewilderment before
    this maze of Indian paradox: "We owe to
    Plato," she writes, "our belief that it is impos-
    sible at one time to hold contradictory opin-
    ions about the same thing; many Indian texts,
    by contrast, would argue that if two ideas
    clash, both may be true." In stories about the
    Hindu pantheon, for instance, a god can be
    both the father and the son of another god:
    "From Purusa Viraj was born," says the
    Rgyeda, "and from Viraj came Purusa." The
    tales selected and translated by O'Flaherty
    from classic Indian texts such as the Vedas,
    the Upanisads, and particularly the Yogava-
    sistha consistently blur, even deny, the dis-
    tinction between subjective human
    perceptions (illusions, dreams, instances of
    déjà vu) and external objective events. The
    point of these tales, many of which treat
    dreams within dreams or the theme of the
    "dreamer dreamt," is surprisingly consistent:
    that the universe is illusion, or maya. That is
    not to say that the world is unreal, O'Flaherty
    cautions (correcting a common Western mis-
    understanding of the word maya), but rather
    "that it is not what it seems to be, that it is
    something constantly being made."

    The Wilson QuarterlyIWinter 1984


    135

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