Alan Watts
Any Dream You Wanted 2
That means in practice then
That when you hand over your
Vocation
In life
Which is called
Your Swadharma
That means Swa that’s the same as the Latin
Source
One’s one
Dharma means function
Your own function
Or we would call your vocation
When you’ve completed it
You drop out
And become nobody
Now naturally caste
Holy men
And all that kind of thing can be exploited
Anything can be exploited
And abused
And we can look at it all and say
What a mess
Why don't you do something for yourself?
Why don't you kill the sacred cows and eat them?
Why don't you — clean up?
Why do you permit all this disease?
[Chorus]
I wonder, I wonder what you would do
If you had the power to dream any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you, any dream you, any dream you wanted to
I wonder, I wonder what you would do
If you had the power to dream any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you, any dream you, any dream you wanted to
Just try and see something from another point of view for a change
I'm not saying
That we should do what the Hindus do
But just look at it in from another point of view
And they would smile at us and say
“You really think it's as real as all that?”
“Have you never experienced what's on the inside of this game?”
See the trouble with you Westerners is you never experience first
You never got down to the root of reality
You don't know that state of consciousness
And so you frantically
Trying to patch everything up
And pin it all together
Screw the universe up so that it’s fixed
You can never do it
All you’ll be doing is wildly rushing around and creating trouble
[Chorus]
I wonder, I wonder what you would do
If you had the power to dream any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you, any dream you, any dream you wanted to
I wonder, I wonder what you would do
If you had the power to dream any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you, any dream you, any dream you wanted to
Of course
Western educated Hindus think the same way
They are now for rushing around
And they’re patching India up
And what's gonna happen is
They're going to arm all the millions of people in India
And they're gonna create a lot of trouble in Asia one of these days, when they become a powerful Society
When you read Milton's Paradise Lost
Long before Lucifer decided to rebel
The whole of heaven was armed
And he describes the legions of angels with their discussions on escutcheon
And their military deportment
Who was looking for trouble?
Who was looking for trouble? [Laughs]
[Chorus]
I wonder, I wonder what you would do
If you had the power to dream any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you, any dream you, any dream you wanted to
I wonder, I wonder what you would do
If you had the power to dream any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you, any dream you, any dream you wanted to
[Akira The Don Solo]
I wonder, I wonder what you would do
If you had the power to dream any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you, any dream you, any dream you wanted to
I wonder, I wonder what you would do
If you had the power to dream any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you, any dream you, any dream you wanted to
So, the Hindu
Looks at our Christianity
And sort of
Thinks
My goodness
My goodness
Here is
The eternal self
But in
The idea of Christianity
The Godhead is having a real far-out fun
Because
Not only is he incarnated himself say as some wretched beggar
But he's incarnated himself as a Christian soul
Who believes that in this one short life he will decide his eternal destiny
And the possibilities of making a mistake are far greater
Than a being
A lousy beggar
The possibility involved in the Christian gamble
Is to fry in hell forever
And ever and ever and ever
Even the Avicii hell at the bottom of the Nanaka
Only goes on for about one Kalpa
But the everlasting damnation
What an idea
So, the Hindu says “Bravo”
You know
God has really done a dare on himself this time
[Chorus]
I wonder, I wonder what you would do
If you had the power to dream any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you, any dream you, any dream you wanted to
I wonder, I wonder what you would do
If you had the power to dream any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you, any dream you, any dream you wanted to
[Akira The Don Solo]
I wonder, I wonder what you would do
If you had the power to dream any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you, any dream you, any dream you wanted to
I wonder, I wonder what you would do
If you had the power to dream any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you wanted to
Any dream you, any dream you, any dream you wanted to