Guest guest Posted March 3, 2002 Report Share Posted March 3, 2002 hariH OM! dear friends, having difficult time keeping up with responding to questions generated from my website... http://digital.net/~egodust therefore finding it more and more difficult to participate in our List.. although i manage to read most of what's going on. and i must say that of late, and as usual :-), very interesting and engaging discussions/debates happening, with ample learning opportunities. everyone connected to this List is blessed to have such brilliant, loving satsanga! anyway, here's one of my replies to one such [aforementioned] inquiry: > thank you for responding to my previous letter. do > you have a way of > constantly remembering this is the dream? i keep > thinking that everything i > see is conciousness projected but i still get drawn > in to my human life. its > like i am in a movie and i forgeet that i am just > acting. > any suggestions? > thank you _________________ namaste, from what i've come to understand, whether one regards this world as dream or real, doesn't in itself really matter. what matters is that one never loses the connection to the true Self, which includes and in fact animates virtually everything...visible/invisible, within/without. that connection is established through [what buddha referred to as] "right knowledge," and becomes steady through sadhana (spiritual work). the esoteric vedanta stance on the nature of the world is that it is both real and unreal. as shankaracharya put it, the world (brahman's leela or Life-Play) is anirvachaniya (indescribable and inscrutable), just as is the nature of its Source [in brahman]. in fact, there's a great advantage in looking at it this way, and that is that it alleviates the mind's preoccupation, and in some cases obsession, with grappling with philosophical riddles [not only re the above, but questions like why we're here in the first place, or if brahman were perfect why this imperfect Creation, viz. where did the desire [itself implying imperfection] originate that spun this Creation?]... thus the Mind and its thoughts are seen to be a mix of real and unreal fragments of our substratum Reality. and the keyword here is *fragments*. infinitesimal fragments. whereas our true nature--the Self brahman--is all there is, animating everything, everywhere, in every moment now. OM shaanthi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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