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A Journey Through the Mysteries of the Unreal World

 

We accept that the self is Brahman, and everything is Brahman, it is natural for us to doubt the reality of the world that appears to us.

Some argue that the world is different from Brahman. To illustrate this point, they compare the world to a movie projected on a screen. As long as the screen exists, the movie appears. Likewise, Brahman is eternal, but the world that appears is temporary, an illusion.

This world that we see appears the same to everyone, yet it is not real, as the divine explains. It is merely an illusion. What exists is one - the Self. That alone is real.

Despite some arguing against this notion, dreams are also not real, but they still seem real to us. However, only the world is debated to be real. The divine elaborates on the perspective of creation. According to this, individuals perceive objects differently based on their perspective.

Similarly, there is also a perspective of creation. According to this, the world appears real to the individual alongside the world he perceives.

When we are asleep, we do not perceive the world, but when we wake up, it appears. The divine explains that we do not know when we are asleep, but we know when we wake up.

Furthermore, those who experience the unreal in dreams realize their falseness upon waking up. Likewise, when we wake up, the world we perceive is also understood to be untrue.

If we turn our minds away from the world and introspect, knowing about the Self, then the world appears as an illusion to us.

Therefore, asserts that this perceived world is unreal. We can grasp this through self-realization. Only those with an external view due to bodily attachment perceive the world as real.

Ramana Maharshi

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