Phantasma

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Deepak Sharma Tr. Madhu B. Joshi   'My Eyes Make Pictures When They Are Shut.' Said Coleridge. Of what period would those pictures have been? Of the past? Or of the ongoing present? Or of the future still in the making? Or were they just phantasma? With no basis in reality? Having no existence? Only invoked by the imagination? Or were they dreams thrown up by some unremembered incident imprinted in the mind? According to yoga, there are five states of mind: kshipt (hurtful), moodh (stupefied), vikshipt (crazed), ekagr (intent) and niruddh (blocked). I know not what stage my mind